Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

world leadership of the pontiff in the Vatican.
Cardinal Damian was sent into northern Italy (A.D.
1059), the region of the Waldenses, to bring into
subjection the diocese of Milan which had ever
remained independent of the Roman see. Since the
scholarly rejection which this haughty priest met at
Constantinople took place before the mission to
Milan, it greatly strengthened the Waldenses in
their resistance.
Both the Greek and the Latin churches had lost
much of the spiritual power maintained by the
Waldenses. Dean Stanley reveals how much deeper
the Latin apostasy was than the Greek as late as the
twelfth century: “At certain periods of their course,
there can be no doubt that the civilization of the
Eastern Church was far higher than that of the
Western.”[44] Rome’s discontent at the lagging
Eastern Church was first manifest when the king of
Bulgaria and his nation were converted to
Christianity by Greek missionaries in A.D. 864.
The pope noted that these missionaries had
followed the example of Eastern evangelism by
translating the Bible not from the Latin Vulgate,
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