Letter LXXVI, from Emperor Marcian to Archbishop Leo

To Leo, most reverend bishop of the Church of the most glorious city of Rome — Marcian. Marcian Receives Leo’s Legates; Invites Leo to Convene a Synod or Designate Its Location; The Council Will Follow Leo’s Defined Rules On the tenth day before the Kalends of December, at Constantinople, in the seventh consulship of our […]

Letter LXXIII, from Emperors Valentinian and Marcian to Archbishop Leo

Valentinian and Marcian, glorious victors and triumphators, ever Augusti — to Leo, most reverend archbishop of the glorious city of Rome. Valentinian and Marcian Announce Their Accession and Request Leo’s Leadership for a Synod to Ensure Catholic Peace We have come to this supreme empire by God’s providence and the election of the most excellent […]

Letter XV, from Pope Leo to Turribius, Bishop of Astorga

Leo, bishop, to Turribius, bishop, greetings. How laudably you are moved for the truth of the Catholic faith, and how carefully you expend your pastoral office’s devotion to the Lord’s flock — your brotherhood’s writings, delivered to us by your deacon, have fully shown Us, revealing to Our notice what you have taken care to […]

Letter I, from Pope Leo to the Bishop of Aquileia

Leo, bishop of the Apostolic See, to the Bishop of Aquileia. I. Pelagian Clergy Have Been Wrongly Received Into Communion Without Recanting Their Error From the report of our holy brother and fellow bishop Septimus — contained in the letter he attached — we have learned that certain priests, deacons, and clergy of various ranks […]

Letter X, from Pope Hilarius to the Bishops of Various Provinces of Gaul

Hilarus, bishop, to his most beloved brothers, the bishops of the provinces of Vienne, Lyons, Narbonensis Prima and Secunda, and the Pennine Alps. Although We remember that your brotherhood retains the things that have been established by Us, and does not conceal any of those things which We have written — namely that, for the […]

Letter VIII, from Pope Hilarius to the Bishops of Various Provinces of Gaul

Hilarus, bishop, to his most beloved brothers, the bishops of the provinces of Vienne, Lyons, Narbonensis Prima and Secunda, and the Pennine Alps. Although the extent and character of the wrongs long committed in the churches of Narbonne and Béziers are not hidden from your charity, and the improbity of presumption which has come all […]