[Footnote 86: The great diocese of the Eastern Illyricum,
with Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily, (Thomassin, Discipline de
l'Eglise, tom. i. p. 145: ) by the confession of the Greeks,
the patriarch of Constantinople had detached from Rome the
metropolitans of Thessalonica, Athens Corinth, Nicopolis,
and Patrae, (Luc. Holsten. Geograph. Sacra, p. 22) and his
spiritual conquests extended to Naples and Amalphi (Istoria
Civile di Napoli, tom. i. p. 517-524, Pagi, A. D 780, No.
11.)]