ABSTRACT
A significant problem is caused by the fact that the confessional divisions on Latin Cyprus did not always correspond to national ones. The issue is complicated further by the fact that some of the non-Chalcedonian Christians had, ostensibly at least, submitted to Rome by the end of the thirteenth or the mid-fourteenth centuries. Given the eastern origins of these non-Chalcedonian Christians, it was natural for them to reside in the Cypriot harbour-town opposite the Syrian coast and their presence in Famagusta is mentioned several times in contemporary letters and accounts of the fourteenth century. The Roman church was the only church on Cyprus seeking to extend its jurisdiction over non-Chalcedonian Christians. A new group of non-Chalcedonian Christians appeared on Cyprus during the century of Latin rule, these being the Copts. As regards ecclesiastical organisation, the Nestorians may have had a bishop on Cyprus subject to the metropolitan of Tarsus, who was in turn subject to the Nestorian patriarch of Baghdad.
