The ever-mounting hostility in Palestine between Christians and Jews has resulted in severe curtailment of Jewish disciplinary rights over their coreligionists, interference in the collection of patriarchal taxes, restriction of the right to build synagogues, and, finally, upon the death of the patriarch Gamaliel VI in about 425, the diversion of the Jewish tax to the imperial treasury and the abolition of the patriarchate as well as the Jewish office of Nasi (prince), the last remnant of the ancient Sanhedrin, thus ending the last semblance of Jewish political autonomy in Palestine.