Letter XXXIV, from Pope Leo to Bishop Julian of Cos
Leo, bishop, to the most beloved brother Bishop Julian. Chapter I: Leo Grieves That Eutyches Has Made Himself Estranged from the Unity of Faith Your beloved’s recent letters, delivered to me, show how greatly we thrive with the spiritual love of the Catholic faith and how great is the joy of heart they give me […]
Letter XXXIII, from Pope Leo to the Second Synod of Ephesus
Leo, bishop, to the holy synod convened at Ephesus. Chapter I: The Emperor Brings to Bear the Authority of the Apostolic See; The Faith of the Incarnation Proven from Peter’s Confession The devout faith of the most clement emperor, knowing it to pertain principally to his glory that no seed of error should rise within […]
Letter XXXII, from Pope Leo to Faustus, Martinus, and Other Archimandrites of Constantinople
Leo, bishop, to the most beloved sons Faustus, Martinus, and the other archimandrites. Leo Decrees Eutyches’s View Detestable and Desires His Restoration to Communion Since, on account of the cause of faith which Eutyches turbulently attempted to disturb, I have judged it fitting to send envoys from my side to assist in the defense of […]
Letter XXXI, from Pope Leo to Empress Pulcheria
Leo, bishop, to Empress Pulcheria Augusta. Chapter I: Leo Urges Pulcheria’s Zeal Against Eutyches We have often proven by many examples how great a protection the Lord has prepared for His Church through Your Clemency. Whatever priestly zeal has achieved against those who have assailed Catholic truth in our times redounds chiefly to your glory […]
Letter XXIX, from Pope Leo to Emperor Theodosius
Leo, bishop of the Catholic Church of the city of Rome, to the most religious and pious emperor Theodosius. The solicitude of Your Clemency, moved by the inspiration of God’s Spirit, shows how divine providence deigns to govern human affairs — desiring that nothing unpeaceful or divergent exist in the Catholic Church, since faith, being […]
Letter XXVIII, to Flavian, Bishop of Constantinople – The Tome of Leo
Leo, bishop, to the most beloved brother Flavian, bishop of Constantinople. Chapter I: Eutyches’s Ignorance of Scripture Led Him into Heresy Having read your beloved’s letters, which We marvel arrived so late, and having reviewed the account of the episcopal proceedings, We have at last come to understand the scandal against the integrity of the […]
Letter XXVII, from Pope Leo to Flavian, Bishop of Constantinople
Leo, to Flavian, bishop of Constantinople. We confirm that your beloved’s letters reached Us as soon as We found the opportunity through the arrival of Our honorable son Rodanus, informing Us of the cause stirred by perverse error in your region. It grieves Us that one once considered to be of religious purpose holds beliefs […]
Letter XIII, from Pope Symmachus to the Bishops of Illyricum, Dardania, and the Two Dacias
Symmachus to the most beloved brothers, all the bishops, presbyters, deacons, archimandrites, and the whole order and people throughout Illyricum, Dardania, and the two Dacias. Chapter I: The Time for Speech, Not Silence; The Bishops Are Reminded of What They Themselves Teach We desire that this be done in full, if what We write is […]
Letter XII, from the Eastern Bishops to Pope Symmachus
The Eastern Church to Symmachus, Bishop of Rome. Chapter I: Christ the Good Shepherd Seeks the Lost Sheep; The Chair of the Prince of the Apostles Christ Entrusted to Your Beatitude That good Lord and lover of mankind, our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of His kindness toward us bowed the heavens and descended to […]
Letter III, from Pope Symmachus to Aeonius, Bishop of Arles
To Our most beloved brother Aeonius, Symmachus. Chapter I: The Vienne Dispute Has Arisen Because Anastasius II’s Ruling Departed from the Older Discipline 1. We have received the letters and directives of Your beloved, brought by Our son Crescentius the presbyter, the intermediary messenger, from which it is established that some struggle has arisen between […]
Decrees of Pope Hilarius
Decrees of Pope Hilarius. Decree of Pope Hilarius According to Gratian, Which Is Not Placed Among the Earlier [Decretals]: Each Receives the Whole Body of Christ in Similar Portions Each person receives the whole body of Christ in similar portions. Where a part of the body is, there also is the whole. The same principle […]
The Decretum Gelasianum: The Council of Rome (494) on the Books to Be Received and Not Received by the Catholic Church
Some Concerning the Councils Celebrated under Gelasius — The First Roman Council, in which by seventy bishops the sacred and authentic books were distinguished from the apocrypha, under Gelasius, in the year of the Lord 494, in the consulship of Asterius and Praesidius. Editorial Preface — On the Council’s Purpose (Severinus Binius) The note that […]
The Tome of Pope Gelasius On the Bond of Anathema
The Tome of Pope Gelasius On the Bond of Anathema. That the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon are valid only to the extent that the Apostolic See has approved them; that the things established against Acacius are just; and that Peter of Alexandria could only have been absolved by the Apostolic See. Chapter I: […]
