Anyone of the Byzanophile forumites around here able to take a stab at what 6'th century ERE would do if a strong continuous country, popped out just outside their sphere of interest (Italy is to close to the traditional hearthland and Hispania is to rich not to be interested in, Gaul in itself doesn't really have a compelling reason to control other than to stop attacks from that front) following a branch of Christianity that they've previously stamped heretic? ... would they soften up their reactions, looking at it not unalike the difference between Oriental churches and Constantinople, itself prehaps even in length suggest that the patriarchate is expanded to 6 or would they stand strong on that they are heretics?