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(Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tom.
IV., col. 459.)
The holy and great and ecumenical
Synod, which by the grace of God according to the constitution of our most
pious and beloved of God emperors assembled together at Chalcedon the city of
Bithynia, in the martyry of the most holy and victorious Martyr Euphemia to
Dioscorus.
We do you to wit that on the
thirteenth day of the month of October you were deposed from the episcopate and
made a stranger to all ecclesiastical order (qesmou) by the holy and ecumenical
synod, on account of your disregard of the divine canons, and of your
disobedience to this holy and ecumenical synod and on account of the other
crimes of which you have been found guilty, for even when called to answer your
accusers three times by this holy and great synod according to the divine
canons you did not come.
SESSION IV.
(Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tom.
IV., col. 469.)
The most magnificent and glorious judges
and the great Senate said:
Let the reverend council now
declare what seems good concerning the faith, since those things which have
already been disposed of have been made manifest. Paschasinus and Lucentius,
the most reverend bishops, and Boniface the most reverend presbyter, legates of
the Apostolic See through that most reverend man, bishop Paschasinus said: As
the holy and blessed and Ecumenical Synod holds fast and follows the rule of
faith (fidei regulam in the Latin Acts) which was set forth by the fathers at
Nice, it also confirms the faith set forth by the Synod of 150 fathers gathered
at Constantinople at the bidding of the great Theodosius of blessed memory.
Moreover the exposition of their faith, of the illustrious Cyril of blessed
memory set forth at the Council of Ephesus (in which Nestorius was condemned)
is received. And in the third place the writings of that blessed man, Leo,
Archbishop of all the churches, who condemned the heresy of Nestorius and
Eutyches, shew what the true faith is. Likewise the holy Synod holds this
faith, this it follows -- nothing further can it add nor can it take aught
away.
When this had been translated into
Greek by Beronician, the devout secretary of the divine consistory, the most
reverend bishops tried out: So we all believe, so we were baptized, so we
baptize, so we have believed, so we now believe.
The most glorious judges and the
great senate said: Since we see that the Holy Gospels have been placed
alongside of your holiness, let each one of the bishops here assembled declare
whether the epistle of most blessed archbishop Leo is in accordance with the
exposition of the 318 fathers
261
assembled at Nice and with the
decrees of the 150 fathers afterwards assembled in the royal city.
[To this question the bishops
answered one by one, until 161 separate opinions had been given, when the rest
of the bishops were asked by the imperial judges to give their votes in a body
(col. 508). ]
All the most reverend bishops cried
out: We all acquiesce, we all believe thus; we are all of the same mind. So are
we minded, so we believe, etc., etc.
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