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 1 1 |        only one hundred and fifty bishops.~ ~ ~ ~3. It was not summoned
 2 1 |           of the Synod many other Bishops, remarkable ~ ~either for
 3 2 |           City, from all the Holy Bishops together more than three ~ ~
 4 2 |           we and all the orthodox bishops of the whole Catholic Church ~ ~
 5 3 |          the consent of very many bishops ~ ~and most learned Cardinals.' '
 6 3 |        Frankish Emperor asked his bishops ~ ~what was "the meaning
 7 3 |   Constantinople, i.e. of the 150 bishops, should ~ ~be recited according
 8 3 |          378 ~ ~"all the orthodox bishops of the whole Catholic Church
 9 4 |      Synodical letter sent by the bishops who assembled at ~ ~Constantinople
10 4 |         Damasus and other Western bishops, that the Second ~ ~Council
11 4 |            the Emperor says: "The bishops who at Constantinople detected
12 4 |     Theodosius, the Holy Synod of Bishops ~ ~assembled in Constantinople
13 6 |        IDES OF JULY.(1)~ ~ ~ ~THE Bishops out of different provinces
14 7 |          iii., 483). The Illyrian bishops ~ ~also, in 374, wrote to
15 7 |        also, in 374, wrote to the bishops of Asia Minor, affirming
16 12|               CANON II.~ ~ ~ ~THE bishops are not to go beyond their
17 12|     affairs of Egypt; and let the bishops of the East manage the East
18 12|      being preserved; and let the bishops of the Asian ~ ~Diocese
19 12|      affairs only; and the Pontic bishops only ~ ~Pontic matters;
20 12|         matters; and the Thracian bishops only Thracian affairs. And
21 12|           affairs. And let ~ ~not bishops go beyond their dioceses
22 12|           the "inthronization" of bishops. Few ~ ~ceremonies are of
23 12|         also sent to neighbouring bishops ~ ~ sullabai   enqronistikai ,
24 12|           and the fees the ~ ~new bishops paid were called  ta  ~ ~
25 12|     Constantinople seven Egyptian bishops to ~ ~ordain Maximus the
26 12|    obliged to receive their first bishops from strange patriarchates,
27 13|       residence, as New Rome, the bishops as ~ ~well as the Emperors
28 13|   exceedingly ~ ~unwilling as the Bishops of Rome were to sanction
29 13|      Proposueramus." However, the bishops of Constantinople, sustained
30 14|           cast out from among the bishops, and anyone who ~ ~was inscribed
31 14|        were followed by a bevy of bishops, ~ ~with secret instructions
32 14|     Ascholius and the Macedonian ~bishops, he vehemently condemns
33 15|          the tome of the Western [Bishops], we receive those in ~ ~
34 15|  consisting of ~ ~nearly the same bishops.~ ~ ~ ~It is certain that
35 15|   dogmatic work of the ~ ~Western bishops is to be understood, and
36 15|       forty-six orthodox Oriental bishops, under Meletius, accepted
37 15|       Synodal Letter, the Eastern bishops, in order to convince ~ ~
38 15|          purpose that the Italian bishops, in their letter to the
39 16|           against the orthodox ~ ~bishops who have the administration
40 16|           to ~ ~the Holy Synod of Bishops assembled together in Constantinople,
41 16|          matters against orthodox bishops. And by ~ ~heretics we mean
42 16|      separated from our canonical bishops, and set up ~ ~conventicles
43 16|      their charges before all the Bishops of the Province, and before ~ ~
44 16|         to a greater synod of the bishops of that ~ ~diocese called
45 16|          the dishonour of all the Bishops of his ~ ~Province, shall
46 16|          or Philopopolis with the bishops of ~ ~each a "Province,"
47 16|           of which the provincial bishops were by no means sufficient, ~ ~
48 16|         then the Canon orders the bishops of the diocese to assemble,
49 16|           that all accusations of bishops for ecclesiastical ~ ~offences
50 16|          be heard by ~ ~synods of bishops, in the manner and form
51 16|         be said of the meeting of bishops at which this canon was ~ ~
52 16|         not admit, especially for bishops, appeals to the Roman ~ ~
53 16|      reopened by the neighbouring bishops together with the bishops ~ ~
54 16|         bishops together with the bishops ~ ~of the province, and
55 18|          the hundred and ~ ~fifty bishops at Constantinople were never
56 18|       that document of ~ ~certain bishops (i.e. the third canon of
57 19|          and the rest of the holy bishops assembled in the great city
58 19|        holy synod of the orthodox bishops assembled at the great city ~ ~
59 19|       bringing the consent of the bishops ~ ~remaining in the provinces
60 19|         of communicating with the bishops ~ ~of our communion in the
61 19|            colleagues and brother bishops Cyriacus, Eusebius and Priscianus,
62 19|       that in every province, the bishops of the ~ ~province, and,
63 19|         consent, the neighbouring bishops with them, ~ ~should perform
64 19| Christians was given them, the ~ ~bishops of the province and of the
65 19|       canonically ordained by the bishops of the province, and has