Cadalus of Parma's Support for Slavonic Liturgical Usage

 

Anti-Hildebrandian counter-Pope Honorius II [i.e. Cadalus of Parma] (+1072) supported the usage of Slavonic in liturgical services:

 "Incidentally, the particular ecclesiastical political climate in the eleventh century allowed the Slavonic rite to flourish in the Kvarner region. In the 1060s, the schism between the 'legitimate' [i.e. Hildebrandian--ed] 'reform'-minded Pope Alexander II and the 'Anti'-Pope Honorius II, who found support in Northern Italy, brought unexpected benefits to the Glagolites. Seeking the support of the Dalmatian Dioceses, Honorius granted the Kvarner islands Krk, Osor, and Rab the right to use Slavonic. The dioceses of lower southern Dalmatia (Zada, Split, and Trogir) remained loyal to Alexander and therefore did not enjoy this privilege. (Klaie 1965)" [page 46]

 It would interesting to further study the issue of the opposition to the Hildebrandian Reforms and their position on local customs. As the Anti-Hildebrandians [Old Western] party opposed the basics of the so-called "Reform" [as exemplified in the crazed "Dictatus Papae"], they more represented, at least in part, an anti-centralizing tendency, and a less internationalist understanding of ecclesiology.