The canons, creeds, definitions, letters and acts of the seven ecumenical councils, from Nicaea in 325 to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, with the canons of the local synods and the apostolic and patristic canons the councils received. The editors' commentary is left out; the councils speak for themselves. In modern English from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (1900), checked against it chapter by chapter.
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Canons of Sardica, Carthage and Constantinople
1Sardica, Canons 1–52Sardica, Canons 6–93Sardica, Canons 10–134Sardica, Canon 14: A Hearing for Clergy Cast Out in Anger5Sardica, Latin Canon 18: Taking Another Bishop’s Clergy6Sardica, Canons 15–207Sardica, Latin Canon 12: Bishops Who Have Not Heard the Decree8An Ancient Introduction to the Council of Carthage9The Council Opens: The Roman Memorandum10Carthage, Canons 1–1511Carthage, Canons 16–3012Carthage, Canons 31–4913Carthage, Canons 50–5514Carthage, Canons 56–6415Carthage, Canons 65–7716Carthage, Canons 78–9117Carthage, Canon 92: The Form for Summoning the Donatists18Carthage, Canon 93: Instructions for the Envoys Against the Donatists19Carthage, Canons 94–10920Carthage, Canons 110–11921Carthage, Canons 120–13322Carthage, Canon 134: The African Council Writes to Boniface of Rome23Carthage, Canons 135–13724Carthage, Canon 138: The Council’s Letter to Pope Celestine25The Council of Constantinople Under Nectarius26The Council of Carthage Under Cyprian27Letter 70: No Baptism Outside the Church