A.D. 1274. LETTERS 0 9 THE PRELATES OP GREECE. 463 The lettere of the prelates of Greece. " To the most holy, most reverend, and most blessed pope, the ancient lord of the Romans, Gregory the Great, pontiff of the most excellent Apostolic See, and most venerable lord and father of our human race : We, who complete the ranks of ecclesiastical ordination, greet your Roman most holy church with wishes of health, and the affection of spiritual subjection; being the metropolitan of Ephesus, the pre-eminently honoured exarch of all Asia, with the holy synod here present around me ; and also the metropolitan of Intracheia, and the prelate of that honoured people, with the holy synod that is around me ; and the most especially honoured metropolitan of Chalcedon, with the holy synod that is around me ; and the metropolitan of Tyona, with the holy synod that is around me ; and the metropolitan bishop of Conconium, with these bishops who are around me ; the pre-eminently honoured metropolitan bishop of Lepanto, with the holy synod that is around me ; the pre-eminently honoured bishop of Aracha of Pontus, with the bishops who are around me ; the metropolitan bishop of Conconium, with the bishops who are around me ; the metropolitan of Caria, with the holy synod that is around me ; the preeminently honoured metropolitan of Berheria, with the holy synod that is around me ; the metropolitan of Athens, and the locum ten ens of Philippopohs, with the bishops that are around me; the pre-eminently honoured metropolitan and exarch of the island of Kiddiadan, with these bishops who are around me ; the metropolitan of the Philippians, with these bishops who are around me ; the metropolitan of Sinnica, with these bishops who are around me ; the metropolitan of Serra,1 with that holy synod that is around me ; the metropolitan of Ananstidœ ; the metropolitan of Alania ; the metropolitan of Prisca ; the me tropolitan of Meditse ; the metropolitan of Anidus ; the metropolitan of Christianopolis ; the metropolitan of Silibria ; the metropolitan of Mestbris ; Aprometus, metropolitan of Akinnium ; the metropolitan of Parium ; the metropolitan of Dedimaticum ; the metropolitan of Anastasipolis ; the archbishop* of Bisia ; the archbishop of Bipsella ; the archbishop of Gatilleris ; the archbishop of Derkis ; the archbishop of Preeco ; the archbishop of Lopodium ; the archbishop of Pergamus ; the archbishop of Melemerbum ; the archbishop of Besia. 1 This name is evidently a misprint in the original text.