Editing Pope Innocent II (section)

===Involvement with Outremer===
In his papal bull [[Omne Datum Optimum]] from March 1139, Innocent II had declared that the [[Knights Templar]]—a religious and military organization then twenty-one years old—should in the future be answerable only to the papacy.{{sfn|Bagni|2020|p=6}} That same year he sent [[Alberic of Ostia]] to examine the conduct of the [[Latin Patriarch of Antioch]] establish ties with the [[Armenian Catholicos]].{{sfn|Jotischky|2018|p=343}}{{sfn|Phillips|2007|p=41}} The consequent Latin synod in Antioch, attended also by the Armenian Catholicos [[Grigor III Pahlavuni|Gregory III]], marked the symbolic beginning of Armenian-Latin high-level clerical contacts and according to Armenian sources Innocent sent Gregory a letter of greeting with a staff and [[pallium]].{{sfn|Clapp|Dadoyan|2017|p=218}} On 25 September 1141 he wrote Catholicos Gregory III another long letter in which he asked him to cooperate with the Church of Rome and end the schism, which was achieved at the end of the century.{{sfn|Lapina|Morton|2017|p=195}}{{sfn|Ryan|2001|p=57}}