First Council of Constantinople, Canons of the One Hundred and Fifty Fathers who assembled at Constantinople during the Consulate of those Illustrious Men, Flavius Eucherius and Flavius Evagrius on the VII of the Ides of July. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 14 (Percival, 1900), public domain.
Passages · 10
- First Council of Constantinople, Canon 1 — The Bishops out of different provinces assembled by the grace of God in Constantinople, on the summons of the most religious Emperor Theodosius, have decreed as follows:vatican.va
- First Council of Constantinople, Canon 2 — 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, alone administer the affairs…vatican.va
- First Council of Constantinople, Canon 3 — The Bishop of Constantinople, however, shall have the prerogative of honour after the Bishop of Rome; because Constantinople is New Rome.vatican.va
- First Council of Constantinople, Canon 4 — 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…vatican.va
- First Council of Constantinople, Canon 5 — In regard to the tome of the Western [Bishops], we receive those in Antioch also who confess the unity of the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.vatican.va
- First Council of Constantinople, Canon 6 — Forasmuch as many wishing to confuse and overturn ecclesiastical order, do contentiously and slanderously fabricate charges against the orthodox bishops who have the administration of the Churches, intending nothing…vatican.va
- First Council of Constantinople, Canon 7 — Those who from heresy turn to orthodoxy, and to the portion of those who are being saved, we receive according to the following method and custom: Arians, and Macedonians, and Sabbatians, and Novatians, who call…vatican.va
Editor's excursus
- First Council of Constantinople, Excursus on the Heresies Condemned in Canon I — In treating of these heresies I shall invert the order of the canon, and shall speak of the Macedonian and Apollinarian heresies first, as being most nearly connected with the object for which the Constantinopolitan…vatican.va
- First Council of Constantinople, Warning to the Reader Touching Canon VII — This canon, I confess, is contained in all the editions of the Commentaries of Balsamon and Zonaras. It is cited also by Photius in Nomocanon, Tit. xii. ch. xiv., besides it is extant in a contracted form in the…vatican.va
Editor's excursus
- First Council of Constantinople, Excursus on the Authority of the Second Ecumenical Council — Lastly, to turn to the question of the authority of this Council, it appears, first of all, that immediately after its close, in the same year, 381, several of its acts were censured by a Council of Latins, namely,…vatican.va