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If the apostate will not heed the Church, let him truly be considered by all to be a heathen — a gentile — and because of this, he may now be rightly oppressed by the external powers (ab exterioribus potestatibus) as an outsider.
—Nicholas I, Responsa ad Consulta Bulgarorum ch. 18