Council,  Canon

 1   1     |          the assembling of a large number of bishops. It was easily
 2   1     |         assembly, though the exact number is not known with certainty.
 3   1     |        existed a dispute as to the number of the canons of First Nicaea.
 4   2     |           the East made up a total number of 150. Not even one bishop
 5   4     |         year 451 after Christ. The number of Fathers attending it
 6   4”,10 |        particular church reach the number prescribed in the beginning.
 7   4”,17 |        villages, and had a greater number of inhabitants. So it is
 8   5     |         attended by Fathers to the number of 165, among whom Menas
 9   7     |         691 after Christ.[124] The number of Fathers who attended
10   7”,3  |           of the fact that a great number of those then in holy orders
11   7”,16 |            in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied,
12   7”,16 |      general all churches have the number of deacons and of clergymen
13   7”,39 |            widow be taken into the number under sixty years old if
14   7”,39 |            out and to increase the number of years for him (in proportion,
15   7”,101|     observe the custom, the entire number of years, that is to say,
16   8”,15 |     tolerated because of the great number of clerics already in it;
17   8”,23 |          to recognize one of their number as their chief, and so forth).
18   8”,23 |     succession, which were five in number, namely, that of Rome, that
19   8”,23 |         and others, with a greater number of years, while other Canons
20   8”,23 |         Canons prescribe a smaller number of years for the same offenses.
21   8”,23 |       sinners is not judged by the number of years, but by the disposition
22   8”,23 |          degree of repentance, the number of years of penance is prescribed
23   8”,23 | determining how much to reduce the number of years of penance the
24   8”,23 |            employs in the singular number is to be taken to have a
25   8”,23 |            often uses the singular number instead of the plural, as,
26   8”,23 |             St. Basil, in fact, in number 14 of his Definitions in
27   8”,23 |         ought to have one of their number as chief, and to regard
28   8”,23 |        Fifth Council, but a goodly number of years before the Fifth
29   8”,23 |           council held in Carthage number IV and XXXIII which were
30   8”,23 |       although in other cities the number of deacons was a matter
31   8”,23 |      points, in order that a large number of Christians assembled
32   8”,23 |           prayerhouse when no such number of Christians were assembled
33   8”,23 |          yourselves that again the number of years becomes nearly
34   8”,23 |       Canon, ought to increase the number of years in regard to those
35   8”,23 |           had increased to a large number in its days. They are alluded
36   8”,23 |           chief seat among a large number of other men like him in
37   8”,23 |             says that that was the number of Fathers attending it.
38   8”,23 |         King of Bulgaria. The same number is recorded in the menologion
39   8”,23 |         and represented by a large number of individual men is to