But two decades later, another bishop of Rome, Victor (d. 198), thought that the churches in Asia Minor were out of step with the rest of the Christian world and set out to persuade them to conform to the Roman practice (and also the custom in Jerusalem). He called together a gathering of bishops in Rome and urged his fellow bishops elsewhere, such as in Gaul, to oppose the Quartodecimans. Some who followed the Roman practice considered Victor head-strong and pleaded with him not to divide the churches over the issue. The ancient custom of the churches of Asia Minor should be respected.
