Excerpt from A Sketch of the Reformation

The bishops of Rome and Constantinople, from their residence in the two largest cities in Europe, acquired great wealth and power, and were con sequently regarded as superior to the other ecclesiastics. The former of these dignitaries claimed the supreme power in religious matters. This claim was resisted by the bishop of Con stantinople, and thus arose the great quarrel which ended in the division of Christendom into the Roman and Greek churches.

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