Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Milan, and Gaul were practically identical.12 It is
impossible to find a time throughout the centuries
when there was not opposition in northern Italy to
the Roman hierarchy, sometimes great, sometimes
small, but always evangelical. Dr. Allix states this
fact thus:
To this purpose it will be of use to set forth as
well the constitution of the church, as the manner
in which the diocese of Milan did continue
independent until the midst of the eleventh century,
at which time the Waldenses were obliged more
openly to testify their aversion for the Church of
Rome as an anti-Christian church. It will be easy
enough for me to perform what I have proposed to
myself, in following the history of the church.
Before the Council of Nicaea, we find the diocese
of Italy very distinct from that of Rome.[11]
Dr. Faber presents, in the following words, one
way in which this gulf between the churches of the
Milan district and Rome originated:
Now this district, on the eastern side of the
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