Council,  Canon

  1 Intro  |           not the intention of the Fathers gathered at Nicea to substitute
  2 Intro  |      regulation established by the Fathers of Nicea.1 St. Basil, writing
  3 Intro  |           councils and of the Holy Fathers last.13 Although this classification
  4 Intro  |           the real thinking of the Fathers who issued these ancient
  5 Intro  |         The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series.42 It is
  6 Intro  |          therefore approved by the Fathers of Chalcedon.43 Subsequent
  7 Intro  |      parcel of Holy Tradition. The Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical
  8 Intro  |        forget either that the Holy Fathers, the authors of the canons,
  9 Intro  |           barbarian invasions, the Fathers of the Synod in Trullo decided
 10 Intro  |           the axiom applied by the Fathers of Nicea to the privileges
 11   1”,7 |       always comes first among the Fathers attending a council, and
 12   1”,13| Interpretation.~After these divine Fathers prescribed concerning penance,
 13   1”,14|            writings of the Western Fathers. One of these classes was
 14   1”,20|            by the Apostles and the Fathers ought all to be observed
 15   2    |          in Constantinople. Of the Fathers attending it the most notable
 16   2”,1 |                       1.~ The holy Fathers assembled in Constantinople
 17   2”,1 |         three hundred and eighteen Fathers who met in Nicaea, Bithynia,
 18   2”,1 |          asserts that the 150 Holy Fathers who convened in Constantinople
 19   2”,1 |           creed adopted by the 318 Fathers who had convened in Nicaea,
 20   2”,2 |          customary practice of the Fathers.~(Ap. cc. XXXIV, XXXV; cc.
 21   2”,2 |           prevailing custom of the Fathers. To be more explicit, neighboring
 22   2”,3 |          seen in the fact that the Fathers assembled in Chalcedon,
 23   2”,5 |          it says that, just as the Fathers of this Council accepted
 24   2”,5 |           holy Creed of the Nicene Fathers and anathematizing all those
 25   2”,5 |       which definition the Western Fathers assembled at Sardica[53]
 26   2”,5 |             that is to say, as the Fathers who assembled in Nicaea.~ ~ ~
 27   3    |           numbering upwards of 200 Fathers. The “hegemons” (i.e., principal
 28   3    |       Alexandria illustrious among Fathers, who, acting in the place
 29   3”,7 |            one defined by the Holy Fathers who convened in the city
 30   3”,7 |            and decreed by the Holy Fathers who assembled in the city
 31   3”,8 |          to the Canons of the Holy Fathers and ancient custom, whereby
 32   3”,8 |       order that the Canons of the Fathers be not transgressed, nor
 33   3”,8 |          general and catholic, the Fathers of this Council add that
 34   3”,8 |       order that the Canons of the Fathers be not transgressed, and
 35   4    |        after Christ. The number of Fathers attending it was 630, the
 36   4    |            therefore to the divine Fathers we all consonantly join
 37   4    |        Symbol (i.e., Creed) of the Fathers has imparted the matter
 38   4”,1 |            promulgated by the Holy Fathers, in each and every Council
 39   4”,1 |          Canons issued by the Holy Fathers from the beginning down
 40   4”,1 |      theretofore, and those of the Fathers of the Church should remain
 41   4”,5 |       Canons laid down by the Holy Fathers should remain in effect
 42   4”,5 |            were issued by the Holy Fathers to prohibit bishops as well
 43   4”,8 |      teaching imparted by the holy Fathers. As regards those who dare
 44   4”,8 |   tradition received from the Holy Fathers, and not abscond from the
 45   4”,19|        with the Canons of the Holy Fathers, for the Bishops to meet
 46   4”,28|            the decrees of the Holy Fathers, and aware of the recently
 47   4”,28|     keeping with the fact that the Fathers naturally enough granted
 48   4”,28|            New Rome, therefore the fathers of this Council too, by
 49   4”,28|         For, they say, just as the Fathers bestowed privileges upon
 50   5    |          Greek. It was attended by Fathers to the number of 165, among
 51   6    |       volume of the Councils). The Fathers who attended it numbered
 52   7    |         Christ.[124] The number of Fathers who attended it was 327
 53   7    |          the Patriarchs and of the Fathers who attended it. Thus, summarily
 54   7    |      forgotten that . . . the same Fathers gathered themselves together
 55   7    |       which had been signed by the Fathers of the present Sixth Council,
 56   7”,1 |         eighteen holy and blissful Fathers who convened in Nicaea in
 57   7”,1 |         one hundred and fifty Holy Fathers who convened in the Imperial
 58   7”,1 |           forth by the God-bearing Fathers who earlier assembled themselves
 59   7”,1 |            and thirty God-approved Fathers, which conveyed to the ends
 60   7”,1 |         and sixty-five God-bearing Fathers who assembled upon the ground
 61   7”,1 |            to our posterity; which Fathers indeed as a Council anathematized
 62   7”,1 |        aforesaid holy and blissful Fathers, and let him be erased and
 63   7”,1 |           Apostles[129] and by the Fathers of the First Council (who
 64   7”,1 |            and nature), and by the Fathers of the Second Council (whose
 65   7”,1 |         theological utterances the Fathers of this Council assert that
 66   7”,1 |         the Prophets”), and by the Fathers of the Third[131] and Fourth,
 67   7”,1 |         and, briefly speaking, the Fathers of the present Council solemnly
 68   7”,1 |            keep the aforesaid Holy Fathers’ dogmas of piety, and who
 69   7”,2 |           by the holy and blissful Fathers preceding us, be henceforth
 70   7”,2 |           by our holy and blissful Fathers, to wit: the three hundred
 71   7”,2 |           thirty holy and blissful Fathers who met in Chalcedon. Likewise
 72   7”,2 |             which it says that the Fathers preceding it accepted and
 73   7”,2 |           And d) those of the Holy Fathers individually, each by name.
 74   7”,3 |                Interpretation.~The Fathers of the present Council,
 75   7”,3 |          matter of leniency, these Fathers, in regard to those in holy
 76   7”,6 |          after being ordained, the Fathers of this Council confirm
 77   7”,8 |          fast to whatever our Holy Fathers have decreed, in everything,
 78   7”,8 |              Interpretation.~These Fathers confirm and renew the Canon
 79   7”,8 |        renew the Canon of the Holy Fathers preceding them which commands
 80   7”,13|          from her. But just as the Fathers of the Council held in Carthage,
 81   7”,13|           the same things as these Fathers, decree that the above three
 82   7”,14|           our holy and God-bearing Fathers be observed also in respect
 83   7”,14|           and God-bearing and holy Fathers, let them at any rate be
 84   7”,16|         appoint seven Deacons, the Fathers of the Council held in Neocaesarea
 85   7”,16|       harmonizing the sense of the Fathers with the Apostolic saying,
 86   7”,16|           in the Book of Acts. The Fathers of the present Council,
 87   7”,16|        interpretation given by the Fathers with the assertions concerning
 88   7”,16|          speak, stage. Hence these Fathers, in agreement with divine
 89   7”,16|           poor. Not only did these Fathers not follow the instructions
 90   7”,19|       derived from the God-bearing Fathers; but also, if the discourse
 91   7”,19|          afforded by the aforesaid Fathers, the laity, being apprised
 92   7”,19|            down by the God-bearing Fathers. And if at any time they
 93   7”,19|           discourses of the divine Fathers than by composing sermons
 94   7”,19|            doctrines taught by the Fathers, the laity learn what things
 95   7”,23|          since the teaching of our Fathers thus commands. In case anyone
 96   7”,23|            and depart, just as the Fathers’ teaching commands, that
 97   7”,28|              29.~ The Canon of the Fathers met in Carthage prescribes
 98   7”,28|           an economy of the divine Fathers on account of certain pretexts
 99   7”,28|            the Apostles and of the Fathers, that the fasting during
100   7”,28|         decrees that perhaps those Fathers employed this economy for
101   7”,28|            during the fasts of the Fathers, that is to say, those in
102   7”,28|          say, those in c. L of the Fathers of Laodicea, which decrees
103   7”,31|            Liturgy. And the devout Fathers assembled in Carthage, too,
104   7”,31|     mistaken view of theirs, these Fathers are making known the true
105   7”,31|            water. In addition, the Fathers in Carthage in c. XLIV,
106   7”,32|          member of the clergy, the Fathers of this Council further
107   7”,35|         one hundred and fifty Holy Fathers who assembled in this God-guarded
108   7”,37|         which was laid down by our Fathers and which reads as follows:
109   7”,38|       aforesaid by the God-bearing Fathers who convened in Ephesus
110   7”,38|        custom. For our God-bearing Fathers have already decided that
111   7”,39|           handed down to us by the Fathers even in these matters, so
112   7”,39|           prescribed by the divine Fathers (and especially St. Basil
113   7”,39|         sixty years old, while the Fathers of the 4th say that a woman
114   7”,40|    quietude. For this reason these Fathers in the present Canon decree
115   7”,45|              Interpretation.~These Fathers do not want nuns to go away
116   7”,49|              Interpretation.~These Fathers forbid everybody to gamble,
117   7”,60|           accordance with what the Fathers had formerly decided in
118   7”,60|        instance), just as previous Fathers have canonically penalized
119   7”,60|        cast a spell upon them, the Fathers of the Council in Ancyra
120   7”,60|    followed mentioning as previous Fathers both him and those in Ancyra.
121   7”,75|          said to the faithful, the Fathers prohibited by means of this
122   7”,80|         from that hymn by the Holy Fathers of old on the ground that
123   7”,80|            legislation by our Holy Fathers heretofore, do anathematize
124   7”,83|              Closely following the Fathers’ institutions, we decree
125   7”,86|         canonically decreed by our Fathers that such men shall serve
126   7”,86|         likes are canonized by the Fathers (assembled, that is to say,
127   7”,89|   canonically from our God-bearing Fathers not to bend the knee on
128   7”,89|      Sundays, from the God-bearing Fathers of the First Synod, i.e.,
129   7”,90|        such women more kindly, the Fathers in Ancyra, in their c. XXI,
130   8    |       Irene, A.D. 783.[256] Of the Fathers attending it, 350 were Orthodox,[
131   8    |           the doctrine of our Holy Fathers, it was the tradition of
132   8”,1 |           and of those of our holy Fathers. For all those men, having
133   8”,1 |            those of the individual Fathers; anathematizing those whom
134   8”,1 |           been enacted by the holy Fathers. See also c. I of the 4th,
135   8”,2 |      definitions and canons of the Fathers, they who are to be ordained
136   8”,3 |            was decreed by the holy Fathers assembled in Nicaea, in
137   8”,5 |         second Canon of the devout Fathers assembled in Chalcedon,
138   8”,5 |         Epistle of St. John, these Fathers call the incorrigible boasting
139   8”,6 |            had to face, the devout Fathers of the Sixth Council decreed
140   8”,21|          hospitably treated by the Fathers of that strange monastery (
141   8”,23|            every one of the divine Fathers took care to stigmatize
142   8”,23|             9), says that “all the Fathers of the present First Council
143   8”,23|           peace,” according to the Fathers (though one may say that
144   8”,23|        ordination. Hence spiritual fathers ought to learn from this
145   8”,23|         therein he urges spiritual fathers to mourn for sinners.~ ~  [
146   8”,23|        were later forbidden by the Fathers to enter the Bema or to
147   8”,23|           in use among the ancient Fathers even before the First Ecumenical
148   8”,23|            the faith of the Nicene Fathers to be delivered to all the
149   8”,23|         Western as well as Eastern Fathers. The Easterners, it is true,
150   8”,23|         confirmed the faith of the Fathers set forth in Nicaea, without
151   8”,23|       assure you, why the Renowned Fathers made it mandatory to anoint
152   8”,23|       definition of their own, the Fathers dogmatized it in that Canon.
153   8”,23|          view of the fact that the Fathers confessed therein the Son
154   8”,23|  co-essential was one to which the Fathers were accustomed even before
155   8”,23|           in like manner had other Fathers called the Virgin Mary a
156   8”,23|        volume of the series of the Fathers (inthe Patrologia); but
157   8”,23|     adopted by the thrice-blissful Fathers speaking on behalf of the
158   8”,23|        Symbol of Faith of our holy Fathers who convened in Nicaea,
159   8”,23|          intact the decrees of the Fathers. We anathematize those who
160   8”,23|          contrary beliefs. Yet the Fathers of that Council did not
161   8”,23|           that defined by the holy Fathers assembled in the city of
162   8”,23|        rather the Creed.” That the Fathers of the Second Council expanded
163   8”,23|         its edict states: “The 150 Fathers with the inspiration of
164   8”,23|         emphasized by the 150 holy Fathers aforesaid when they explained
165   8”,23|      prejudice of the faith of the Fathers, such as that which has
166   8”,23|            Jesus Christ and of the Fathers, who, after convening in
167   8”,23|           and down to this day the Fathers of the Church have been
168   8”,23|           the present Council, the Fathers shouted: “That is the Faith
169   8”,23|           That is the Faith of the Fathers; that is the Faith of the
170   8”,23|           That is the faith of the Fathers,” so and in like manner
171   8”,23|          in the Bibliotheca of the Fathers, because it is in truth
172   8”,23|            learn that wherever the fathers call the union of the two
173   8”,23|        with respect to nature, the Fathers make it clear that this
174   8”,23|          of force, even though the fathers of the women seized consent
175   8”,23|           ratified not only by the Fathers of this Council, but also
176   8”,23|            the present Canon, “the Fathers naturally enough granted
177   8”,23|          including Synods) and the Fathers, not only in his own See (
178   8”,23|          of the Councils or of the Fathers of the Church, but given
179   8”,23|       Scriptures and to the Divine Fathers.” Nor the idea that a hypostasis
180   8”,23|            by him. That is why the Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical
181   8”,23|            anyone say that all the Fathers of so many Councils, and
182   8”,23|         and they cite many Western Fathers as witnesses to this, that
183   8”,23|          Canon is referring to the Fathers of the Third Council who
184   8”,23|              being reproved by the Fathers of the present Council on
185   8”,23|          ground that they (sc. the Fathers) were in favor of adoration
186   8”,23|           by this Canon. For these Fathers together with the Sixth
187   8”,23|        Dioscorites, who called the Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical
188   8”,23|       those Canons of Councils and Fathers which were in use in the
189   8”,23|           anything from their such fathers, either in the way of heritage
190   8”,23|      present Canon and by the Holy Fathers: for St. Jerome in writing
191   8”,23|          eternal devices which our Fathers devised. Two things, however,
192   8”,23|          things are what spiritual fathers ought to tell those in holy
193   8”,23|            account the God-bearing Fathers who compiled the rituals,
194   8”,23|            and on this account the Fathers of the Council by way of
195   8”,23|            sense in which the Holy Fathers employed the word. And divine
196   8”,23|            and monachal habit. The Fathers know of no little habit
197   8”,23|          invented by certain later Fathers on account of men’s weakness (
198   8”,23|          not obey the rules of the Fathers, but allow one party to
199   8”,23|          reality the object of the Fathers to prevent these institutions
200   8”,23|        liturgy was invented by the Fathers in order to provide a way
201   8”,23|         sent packing by the divine Fathers on the ground that they
202   8”,23|         new grace. Our God-bearing Fathers, however, the so-called
203   8”,23|          will not bathe with their fathers, to avoid seeing the nakedness
204   8”,23|          bathe together with their fathers. St. Diadochus, the bishop
205   8”,23|          Blastaris says that these Fathers decreed that those women
206   8”,23|          by the same Canons of the Fathers, and especially by c. XII
207   8”,23|        that that was the number of Fathers attending it. Psellus says
208   8”,23|         the future age. Hence some Fathers called the divine Eucharist
209   8”,23|        pictured by them. Hence the Fathers of the present Council in
210   8”,23|          to wit, the fact that the Fathers of this Council admitted
211   8”,23|        various times by our sacred Fathers, accepting all which they