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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Contents
The Council of Chalcedon (451)
1The First Session2The Second Session3Cyril’s Letter to John of Antioch4The Second Session Continued: The Bishops Acclaim Cyril’s Letters5The Tome of Saint Leo6The Bishops Receive the Tome7The Third Session: Dioscorus Deposed8The Sentence Sent to Dioscorus9The Fourth Session: The Tome Approved10The Fifth Session: Two Natures11The Definition of Faith12The Sixth Session: Chalcedon Made a Metropolis13The Seventh Session: Antioch and Jerusalem Divide the Provinces14The Twelfth Session: The Two Bishops of Ephesus15The Thirteenth Session: Nicomedia and Nicaea16Canons 1–1817Canons 19–3018The Sixteenth Session: The Roman Legates Protest