A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…

But neither the authority of this obscure Dionysius, nor of the latter Arabians following him, is of sufficient weight to gain credit to this relation: especially seeing it is well known, that the title of Catholicus, taken in this sense, ^bis of a very late original, and (for ought we can find) at no time attributed unto the Bishop of Ephesus; and that the Bishop of Constantinople had the second place among the Patriarchs first assigned unto him, not in the Council of Nice, but ^cin the second general Council held at Constantinople in the year CCCLXXXI. After which advancement, the first Bishop of that see we read of, that extended his jurisdiction beyond the sea unto ^dthe Pontican and Asian dioceses, was John Chrysostom, ^ewho passing over unto Ephesus, and holding there the foresaid Synod of the LXX. Asian Bishops, placed Heraclides in the Bishopric of Ephesus, then vacant by the death of Antoninus; and deposing XIII. Bishops, who were charged to have been simoniacally ordained by him, placed others in their room.

But neither the authority of this obscure Dionysius, nor of the latter Arabians following him, is of sufficient weight to gaine credit to this relation: especially seeing it is well known, that the title of Catholicus, taken in this sense, ^bis of a very late originall, and (for ought we can find) at no time attributed unto the Bishop of Ephesus; and that the Bishop of Constantinople had the second place among the Patriarchs first assigned unto him, not in the Councell of Nice, but ^cin the second generall Councell held at Constantinople in the yeare CCCLXXXI. After which advancement, the first Bishop of that see we read of, that extended his jurisdiction beyond the sea unto ^dthe Pontican and Asian dioceses, was John Chrysostome,