Canon 39 Privileges of the Cypriot see kept in exile

Since our brother and fellow minister John, president of the island of Cyprus, has migrated together with his own people from the said island to the Hellespontine province, both on account of the barbarian incursions, and in order to be freed from heathen slavery and to be subject purely to the sceptres of the most Christian rule, by the providence of the man-loving God and the labour of our Christ-loving and pious emperor, we see fit that the privileges granted to the throne of the aforesaid man by the God-bearing Fathers who formerly assembled in Ephesus be preserved unaltered; so that New Justinianopolis shall have the right of Constantinople, and the most God-beloved bishop set over it shall preside over all those of the Hellespontine province, and be ordained by his own bishops, according to the ancient custom. For our God-bearing Fathers also determined that the customs in each church be observed; the bishop of the city of Cyzicus being subject to the president of the said Justinianopolis, in imitation of all the other bishops who are under the aforementioned most God-beloved president John, by whom, when need calls, the bishop of that same city of Cyzicus also shall be ordained.