A priest when elected pope by acclamation, he was the last pope to seek approval of his election from the imperial exarch in Ravenna. |
More significant for the moment was Ignatiev's patronage of the campaign of the Bulgarian merchant colony at Constantinople to obtain a Bulgarian exarch. |
They were discovered, and fled to Ravenna, where the exarch held his court. |
The exarch is established at Ravenna, representing the Emperor of the East. |
Hitherto fear of the Lombards had kept the popes faithful to the Byzantine emperor and to the exarch in Ravenna, but the situation changed. |
Archaeosigillaria had an exarch actinostele with scalariform and reticulate tracheids. |