Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 242 The Beginning of Cyprus

In this era of the 12th century, Geillis was alone.

There are too many things that cannot be explained to ordinary people, and those who really understand what Gellis wants to do are often far away.

Simon, who was the first to follow Gellis, became the de facto leader of the cult. Russell, the new recruit at the time, also assisted Lance in taking charge of Antioch.

The former bishop of the Karak Church, Amade, is now training new blood for the church in the town of Alhadi.

As for Father Archos, one of the founders of Gelis theology, he was shining in Cyprus.

In the past two and a half years, without him noticing, several waves of people have come and gone around Garys.

Even, he and Isabella spent less time together than together.

It was no wonder that the other party was a little angry when he learned that he had come to Tyre City and did not go to see her first.

But fortunately, I have settled down now.

I can go back to my desk and carry out my work step by step. At the same time, I will officially start to establish a branch organization in Tyre.

Gellis had already made clear the issues concerning the religious organization before leaving Transjordan.

That the center of the Order was in Transjordan is beyond doubt.

Simon and Amadeus, one led the training of Paladins, and the other led the training of priests.

In essence, the Paladins are a militarized religious order with a clear hierarchy, although they will be granted the seal of God, which is equivalent to the rank of priest.

However, he only dabbled in theological attainments and put more energy into learning various knowledge. He was trained as a comprehensive talent and sent to various positions to shine.

As for the clergy, that is, the priests within the Taiping Order, there is no superior-subordinate relationship between them.

More energy was invested in the philosophy of theology. In addition to studying theory, more energy was spent on learning how to get along with believers, how to deal with the spiritual needs of the people, and how to lead the believers who accepted them to unite.

Since the duties of the priest group do not come directly from the ordination of the order, therefore in Gellis's vision.

These priests chosen by the believers must also better safeguard the interests of the believers in order to be able to serve for a long time.

In a sense, the Palatine is essentially the equivalent of a civil servant government, and the priests are the elected representatives at the religious level.

Without Paladin, the Order would not have the mobility to carry out Garys's will and operate efficiently with more advanced expertise.

If there are no priests who are united with the believers, the sect will sooner or later become separated from the believers and evolve into another Roman Catholic Church.

As for the branch organization, it is to integrate the Paladins and priests in the Tyre area and build a self-coordinated center.

A similar thing actually happened in Cyprus.

In the external system, the existence of the Church of Cyprus helped to endorse the identity of all members of the Taiping Order.

This allowed Gellis to call himself the head of Cyprus, and also allowed other Paladins or priests to declare themselves to be genuine Orthodox members.

In the internal system, the Cyprus Church has also obtained the pre-qualification of a branch and can train its own Paladins and clergy.

As the person whose theological attainments were second only to Garys himself in the entire sect, Aljos had been quite busy these days. On the one hand, he had received a letter from Garys some time ago, and many of the views in the letter were a bit too explosive.

So much so that Aljos even pinched his temples and repeatedly checked whether the letter was forged.

On the other hand, it lies in the Cyprus Liberation Front.

The Cypriot Liberation Front did not disband directly because of Gellis's departure, nor did it merge directly with the Church because of the Church of Cyprus' control over the entire island.

Instead, it began to exist for a long time on the island of Cyprus as an independent political organization.

The FSLA has its own political platform and has repeatedly raised the banner that their political platform comes from Gheris, demanding political reforms in Cyprus.

The core of the FSLN’s political program is pretty much this: “Restore Roman rule and let citizens rule the country!”

It is demanded that a Cypriot state with a "Roman" system be formally established, with the Citizens' Assembly as the highest authority of the Cypriot state.

Considering that the organization actually came from Guillis, this matter is not impossible to discuss, but it is still quite troublesome.

The last aspect is that Frederick I, "Red Beard", the Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, King of Italy, and imperial prince of the Frankish Kingdom, has landed in Cyprus with his most elite crusaders in history!
That was an army of at least 15,000 people, with as many as 3,000 knights!

When these three things happened together, Aljos felt like his head was about to explode.

No, he still has various daily tasks to deal with!
At this juncture, his teacher and adoptive father Anthony, the official Archbishop of Cyprus, said that he could do nothing to help.

"Teacher, at least you have to help me deal with Barbarossa!"

Aljos was already begging for mercy, and Anthony patted him on the shoulder and finally nodded.

After turning down some of the work, Aljos began to think slowly.

He put the letter from Garys first.

In that letter, Gillis made some points so powerful that even Aljos felt he needed to slow down.

Moreover, it is not appropriate to discuss this matter with others. What if you label others as heretics? Wouldn't that be quite unpleasant?
Indeed, many of the views in Gaillis's letter could be classified as heresy even within the Taiping Sect.

But considering that it was Gillis himself who spoke out these heresies, this is very, very offensive.

After thinking for a long time, Archos picked up his pen and prepared to write a reply.

“Saint, after reading your letter, I am not sure whether this is inspired by the Holy Spirit.”

"If it is indeed the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and if it was written by the Lord through your hand, then I can only lament my past ignorance."

"If the 'apostle' Paul proposed 'justification by faith', then you have concluded that 'justification by poverty'."

"In your letter, our Heavenly Father, the Lord of Hosts, is truly present in a way that we have never imagined."

“Indeed, if [the united ones are one as God, and the scattered ones are sons], then each of us will enjoy the person of God’s ‘adopted son’…”

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