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Church

After the defeat of 1204, the Greeks tried to come together around their language and their dogma. People and clergy put up a stubborn resistance against the effort of the Latin Church to spread through the East.

Many among the ecclesiastical leaders abandoned their seats and preferred being exiled than suffering the humiliation of subjugation. The metropolitan of Athens, Michael Choniates was one among them. He abandoned his place after having seen the renowned sanctuary of Athens being desecrated and plundered.

The Church of the hegemony came under papal protection. Otho de la Roche confiscated the estates of the Church and levied taxes on the priests. Later, the second parliament of Ravennika (1210) determined precisely the jurisdiction and the obligations of the Church and of the Frankish leaders, as for example the obligation of the Latin and the Orthodox clergy to pay a land tax of Byzantine origin, the acrosticon.