both of the province of Reggio.[1] For the "Greek" canons of St Severina in the thirteenth century, see above (p. 98, n. 1).
In Sicily, too, long after the bishops had become Latins, there remained under them Byzantine clergy. In 1082 Count Roger I submits to the Bishop of Traina "all the priests of his diocese, both Latin and Greek." In 1093 the Archbishop of Syracuse has under him "priests and clerks, both Greek and Latin."[2] At Palermo and Messina the Byzantine rite remained a long time. At Palermo there were under the Norman kings two Greek chapters, ruled by a "Protopapas." There are documents naming these of the years 1164 and 1190.[3] The famous church S Maria dell' Ammiraglio at Palermo[4] was served by eight canons of the Byzantine rite, at least till the thirteenth century. Pope Honorius III (1216-1227), in 1221, says that "this church is to be served only by the Rector and Greek clergy. Messina kept the Byzantine rite in some churches till the seventeenth century (p. 111).
M. Jules Gay has found in the Vatican archives two lists of contributions, to be paid to the Holy See from Calabria and the extreme South of Apulia (the "Terra d' Otranto "), dated 1326-1328 and 1373.[5] Although these lists are incomplete, they give a good idea of the extension of the Byzantine rite at that time. As one would expect, it is found, then, chiefly in the Basilian monasteries.[6] Yet there are still a number of institutions, chapters, and "Protopapatus."[7] In the diocese of Reggio there are twenty-nine clerks (in the city itself) of the Roman rite, and thirty-seven "Greek clerks of the city of Reggio"; in the rest of the diocese are thirty-two Latin canons and clerks and thirty-nine Byzantines; also ten Byzantine monasteries and three convents of nuns. In the diocese of Tropea there are twenty-six Byzantine clerks. At Oppido is one monastery;[8] at Gerace two Greek canons, four
- ↑ Mansi, xxii, 462, A; cf. Harduin, vi (Pt. 2), 2057, D. "Crotonias" apparently means Bishop of Crotone.
- ↑ Rodotà, i, 454.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ The "Martorana" church, built in 1143 by George of Antioch, Admiral of the Fleet to Roger I. From 1433 it was the chapel of a convent founded by Aloisia Martorana.
- ↑ Published by him in the Byzantinische Zeitschrift, iv (1895), pp. 59-66, "Notes sur la conservation du rite grec dans la Calabre et dans la terre d'Otrante au XIVᵉ siècle."
- ↑ See pp. 124 seq.
- ↑ The title "Protopapa" does not prove that the Byzantine rite was still used. These Greek titles often remain after the Roman rite has been introduced.
- ↑ I count the Byzantine institutions only.
