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 1 Intro|          Authority of the Second Ecumenical Council.~ ~*Synodical Letter
 2 1    |        was not intended to be an Ecumenical Synod at all.~ ~ ~ ~2. It
 3 1    |         is) the Second of the ~ ~Ecumenical Synods rests upon its Creed
 4 2    |       not himself present at the Ecumenical Council of Constantinople,
 5 3    |       the Acts of the Seventh ~ ~Ecumenical which they had, but no stress
 6 3    |     forth by the authority of an Ecumenical Synod and which had been ~ ~
 7 4    |       next year after the Second Ecumenical ~ ~Council) sent to Pope
 8 12   |      affect to prevent either ~ ~Ecumenical Councils, or even general
 9 14   |      dislodged by a decree of an ecumenical ~ ~council. His history
10 14   |          in 379. When the second ecumenical council met at Con- ~ ~stantinople
11 15   |        the other a "tome" of the Ecumenical Council ~ ~held at Constantinople
12 16   |       Province, shall trouble an Ecumenical Synod, such an one shall
13 18   |          AUTHORITY OF THE SECOND ECUMENICAL COUNCIL.~ ~ ~ ~(Hefele,
14 18   |    reckons it as one of the four Ecumenical ~ ~Councils, which he compares
15 18   |    reckoned this Synod among the Ecumenical ~ ~Councils.~ ~ ~ ~The question
16 18   | Constantinople was ~ ~considered ecumenical by the Latins as well as
17 18   |       designated this council as ecumenical, yet it could not for a ~ ~
18 18   |          universally honoured as ecumenical by the Greeks, and was ~ ~
19 18   |         in the sixth century its ecumenical character had come to be ~ ~
20 19   |          issued last year by the Ecumenical ~ ~Council held at Constantinople,
21 19   |        in the ~ ~presence of the Ecumenical Council, with common consent,