A corrupt priesthood dreaded its tendency to deprive them of their sinful gains.

Certain persons no longer enjoyed a monopoly of Armenian printing.

Education ceased to be exclusively in the hands of a few bankers.

And the popularity of Hohannes and Boghos Fizika was thought to operate against the great Armenian college at Scutari.

Nor were the members of the Romish Church idle.
The patriarchs were elected by the primates, who were chiefly bankers, and were in an important sense their creatures.