Some of the bishops returned to communion, and it was said that if he had behaved well, the church would have been at peace. However he acted more like a secular than an ecclesiastical ruler, using his wealth against his opponents and treating the clergy mercilessly. Some of the elders of the church were violently driven out. Some, like Arnulf of Calabria, the bishop of Cosenza, and Lambert, the archdeacon of Antioch, found themselves treated like common murderers, imprisoned in a dungeon full of lime and tortured for many days on a charge of conspiring against Radulf. His behaviour was so crazy that he became widely hated, and began to fear for his safety