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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.14: The Seven Ecumenical Councils (Catholic Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume XIV: The Seven Ecumenical Councils. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the...

THE Bishop of Constantinople, however, shall have the prerogative of honour after the Bishop of Rome; because Constantinople is New Rome. CONCERNING Maximus the Cynic and the disorder which has happened in Constantinople on his account, it is decreed that Maximus never was and is not now a Bishop; that those who have been ordained by him are in no order whatever of the clergy; since all which has been done concerning him or by him, is declared to be invalid. (Probably adopted
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