The Popes under Odoacer and Theodorick, 173 How Acacius took advantage of the political situation, 174 The meaning and range of his attempt, 175 The Pope from 476 onwards rests solely upon his Apostolate, 176 The seven Popes who succeed St. Leo, 179 The seven bishops who succeed Anatolius at Constantinople, 180 The eastern emperors in this time, 182 The state of the eastern patriarchates, Alexandria and Antioch, 184 The waning of secular Rome reveals the power of the Pontificate, 185 The Popes alone preserved the East from the Eutychean heresy, 185 The position of St. Leo maintained by the seven following Popes, 186 The submission to Hormisdas an act of the "undivided" Church, 187 The adverse circumstances which developed the Pope's Principate, 188 CHAPTER IV. (XLVI.). JUSTINIAN. Sequel in Justinian of the submission to Pope Hormisdas, 189 His acknowledgment of the Primacy to Pope John II. in 533, 190 Reply of Pope John II. confirming the confession sent to him by Justinian, 191 The _Pandects_ of Justinian issued in the same year, 192 Close interweaving of ecclesiastical and temporal interests, 193 Interference with the freedom of the papal election by the temporal ruler, 194 Letter of Cassiodorus as Praetorian prefect to Pope John II., 195 Justinian all his reign acknowledged the Primacy of the Pope, 196 His character, purposes, and actions, 196 Succeeds his uncle the emperor Justin I., 198 Great political changes coeval with his succession, 199 He reconquers Northern Africa by Belisarius, 199 The Catholic bishops of Africa meet again in General Council, 200 They send an embassy to consult Pope John II., 201 Pope Agapetus notes their reference to the Apostolic Principate, 202 Great renown of Justinian at the reconquest of Africa, 203 Pope Agapetus at Constantinople deposes its bishop, 204 Justinian begins the Gothic War. Belisarius enters Rome, 205 He is welcomed as restorer of the empire, 206 The empress Theodora deposes Pope Silverius by Belisarius, 207 First siege of Rome by Vitiges, 210 The mausoleum of Hadrian stripped of its statues, 211 Vitiges, having lost half his army, raises the siege, 213 Belisarius, having reconquered Italy, is recalled for the war with Persia, 214 Totila, elected Gothic king, renews the war, 214