Leo, failing in his efforts to restore…

Leo, failing in his efforts to restore imperial authority in the west, places Illyria, Calabria, and Sicily—all currently controlled by the pope—under the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople, thus permitting a unified program of re-Christianization of much of this region. (The Albanian lands for centuries hereafter will become an arena for the ecclesiastical struggle between Rome and Constantinople.

Most Albanians living in the southern and central regions, the majority, will become Orthodox, while …