03-13-2010, 11:00 PM
Rafa Wrote:Another claim the Jacobites made (I don't say I believe this) was that the COE didn't do what the byzantines asked being outside the borders,
How very naughty of them.
Quote: but their catholicos was appointed by the Zoroastrians (!) and basically did what the Shah asked for. That doesn't sound very independent.
Presumably if they just obeyed the byzantines they would have been independent?

