Canon 8 Cyprus and every province keep their ancient rights

A matter being newly introduced contrary to the ecclesiastical ordinances and the canons of the holy Apostles, and touching the freedom of all, has been reported by the most God-beloved fellow bishop Rheginus and, with him, the most God-beloved bishops of the province of the Cypriots, Zeno and Evagrius. Wherefore, since common afflictions need the greater remedy, as they also bring the greater harm, and especially if there has not even been an ancient custom that the bishop of the city of the Antiochenes should perform the ordinations in Cyprus, as the most reverent men who made their approach to the holy synod have shown by their petitions and by their own voices, those who preside over the holy churches in Cyprus shall be unmolested and free from force, according to the canons of the holy Fathers and the ancient custom, performing by themselves the ordinations of the most reverent bishops. And the same shall be observed also in the other dioceses and in the provinces everywhere; so that none of the most God-beloved bishops shall take hold of another province which was not from the first and from the beginning under his hand, or that of those before him; but if anyone has taken hold of one and brought it under himself by force, he shall give it back; lest the canons of the Fathers be transgressed, or the arrogance of worldly power creep in under the pretext of sacred ministry, or we lose little by little, without perceiving it, the freedom which our Lord Jesus Christ, the liberator of all men, gave us as a gift by his own blood. It has therefore seemed good to the holy and ecumenical council that the rights belonging to each province from the beginning and from the first be preserved to it pure and free from force, according to the custom that has prevailed of old, each metropolitan having leave to take copies of the acts for his own security. And if anyone should bring forward an ordinance conflicting with what has now been defined, it has seemed good to the whole holy and ecumenical council that it be of no effect.