She sent Longinus, as the new Exarch, to supersede the conqueror of Italy, and in most insulting language recalled the eunuch Narses to Constantinople.
"Women of Early Christianity Woman: In all ages and in all countries, Vol. 3 (of 10)"
Alfred Brittain Mitchell Carroll
A like fate befell the Emperor Phocas, who succumbed in 610 to the fortunes of Heraclius, the son of Crispus, Exarch of Africa.
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The most signal example of this is to be seen in Russia, where the Greek Church, being cut off from Constantinople, had its own independent Patriarch up to the time of Peter the Great; and very lately, when Bulgaria became a State, it set up its own head of the Church, or Exarch.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall