Bishops played an important and varied role in Byzantine society: detail of mosaic from the northern wall of the sanctuary of San Vitale, Ravenna, 547 AD, showing Maximian, Archbishop of Ravenna.
Opera di Religione della Diocesi di Ravenna
Historia tou Hellenikou Ethnous, v. 7, Ekdotike Athenon S.A., Athens 1978, p. 276.
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