This influence was very powerful throughout the country, as it was supported by the intervention of the French embassy, and led to violence and persecution in various parts of the empire, especially at Mardin, where the papal power was comparatively strong." Anticipating the history, it may be said, that the Franco-German war changed all this.

The Turkish government then no longer feared the French, and hence no longer lent itself to Papal intrigues.

The dogma of the Papal Infallibility has been also a severe blow to the Oriental Papacy.
No one was more competent than Dr.Dwight to testify concerning the state of religious opinions among the Armenians of the metropolis.
Writing in February, 1860, he said it would be hard to find an intelligent Armenian in Constantinople, unless among the ecclesiastics, who did not acknowledge that there were many errors in the Armenian Church, and that the evangelical system was the best.
About the game time, he found a great change for the better at Rodosto, on the northern shore of the Sea of Marmora.

The evangelical brethren had suffered many indignities from the Armenians, but now even the magnates were disposed to cultivate friendly relations with them.

This he attributed, in great measure, to the wise and yet firm demeanor of Apraham, the native preacher, who afterwards became pastor of the Rodosto church.