#this is why Theophylaktos was the greatest patriarch Constantinople ever had

[caesarsaladinn]

you think you’ve appeased the populace by choosing a holy man of pure and sincere faith, but then he starts filling their heads with ideas like “divorce is illegal” “usurpation is bad” “rich men cannot enter heaven,” etc

one lesson from the medieval world is that if you’re appointing someone to lead your church, you shouldn’t pick someone very religious