Ecumenical Council

OF COUNCILS AND THEIR AUTHORITY. See Calvin’s Antidote to the Articles of Sorbonne; Letter to Sadolet; Necessity of Reforming the Church; Antidote to the Council of Trent; Remarks on the Paternal Adm

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7. But there is one memorable example which may suffice for all. In the council which the priests and Pharisees assembled at Jerusalem against Christ (John 11:47), what is wanting, in so far as extern

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Canon II. It has also seemed good to this holy Council, that the eighty-five canons, received and ratified by the holy and blessed Fathers before us, and also handed down to us in the name of the hol

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Canon XV. On account of the great disturbance and discords that occur, it is decreed that the custom prevailing in certain places contrary to the Canon, must wholly be done away; so that neither bish

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Decree with Regard to Nicomedia. Session XIII. (Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tom. IV., col. 715.) The most glorious judges said [after the reading of the imperial letters was finished]: These divin

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Constantine, the secretary, read from a book handed him by Aëtius, the archdeacon; Canon Six of the 318 holy Fathers. “Let the ancient customs prevail, those of Egypt, πρεσβεῖα) be preserved to the ch

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Session III. [The imperial representatives do not seem to have been present, and after Aëtius the Archdeacon of Constantinople had opened the Session,] Paschasinus the bishop of Lilybæum, in the pro

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Canon IX. If any Clergyman have a matter against another clergyman, he shall not forsake his bishop and run to secular courts; but let him first lay open the matter before his own Bishop, or let the

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Canon XII. It has come to our knowledge that certain persons, contrary to the laws of the Church, having had recourse to secular powers, have by means of imperial rescripts divided one Province into

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Canon XXVI. Forasmuch as we have heard that in certain churches the bishops managed the church-business without stewards, it has seemed good that every church having a bishop shall have also a stewar

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Canon II. The bishops are not to go beyond their dioceses to churches lying outside of their bounds, nor bring confusion on the churches; but let the Bishop of Alexandria, according to the canons, al

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The Canons of the Holy and Ecumenical Seventh Council. This is the caption as given in the Greek of Beveridge’s Synod. Canon I. That the sacred Canons are in all things to be observed. The pattern

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Canon XI. That Œconomi ought to be in the Episcopal palaces and in the Monasteries. Since we are under obligation to guard all the divine canons, we ought by all means to maintain in its integrity t

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Canon VIII. Our brother bishop Rheginus, the beloved of God, and his fellow beloved of God bishops, Zeno and Evagrius, of the Province of Cyprus, have reported to us an innovation which has been intr

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The Divine “Divine” here, as usually in such connections, means “imperial.” Mendham (The Seventh General Council, the Second of Nicæa. London, s.d.) by a curious blunder takes the adjective for the

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The Sentence of the Synod. (From the Acts. Collation VIII., L. and C., Conc., Tom. V., col. 562.) Our Great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, as we learn from the parable in the Gospel, distributes tale

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Canon XX. Forasmuch as there are certain persons who kneel on the Lord’s Day and in the days of Pentecost, therefore, to the intent that all things may be uniformly observed everywhere (in every pari

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Extracts from the Acts. Session I. (Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tom. IV., col. 93.) Paschasinus, the most reverend bishop and legate of the Apostolic See, stood up in the midst with his most rever

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Extracts from the Acts. Session II. (L. and C., Concilia, Tom. IV., col. 338.) When all were seated before the rails of the most holy altar, the most superb and glorious judges and the great (ὑπερφ

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