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September 6. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch [Opizo Fieschi] of Antioch, who, it is said, has been assigned by the Apostolic See the care of spiritual and temporal affairs of the church of Limassol (Nimociensis), responding to his requests by granting full exemption from the spiritual jurisdiction of Archbishop [Hugo] of Nicosia, the metropolitan of the church, so that the archbishop cannot on his metropolitan authority exercise ecclesiastical censure or spiritual jurisdiction of any kind over the patriarch, his household, vicars, or baillis in the church Limassol or on the churches or lands or any members of the clergy or people of the city or diocese for four years. The pope annuls any sentences and anything else attempted against this indulgence. Otherwise the archbishop is to exercise whatever rights he has, since the pope does not wish to cause any prejudice to him by this.