– The Metropolitan of Damietta allowed his people to practice polygamy, so the Pope excommunicated him
– Then the metropolitan and his supporters complained to the governor who took it as an opportunity to humiliate the Christians in their leader, so he brought the Pope and ordered him tortured until he was near death, deposed him, and imprisoned him in the Tower of Alexandria
– Then the metropolitan and his supporters appointed a patriarch they knew would allow polygamy
– The people of Cairo revolted and met the governor and persuaded him to return the imprisoned patriarch to his throne because he was right, and he did so
– The Emperor of Ethiopia was influenced by the Catholic missionaries and proclaimed that his country would adopt their doctrine