Letters of Pope St. Gregory II (+731) to Emperor Leo Against Heresy of Iconoclasm
This letter, by Pope St. Gregory II, was presumably written in the year 729. We can gather this because his
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Ecumenical Councils
Canons, Commemoration, Chaos, and Churches: Thoughts and Unpopular Propositions
A somewhat free-wheeling overview of controversial issues. Breaking Communion: Public and Private Teaching Canon 15 of the First-Second Synod of
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Might and Right in Middle Byzantium by Vladimir Moss
[Original Article] It was a fundamental principle both of the Emperor Justinian’s legislation in the sixth century and of St.
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Fr. Anastasios Gotsopoulos on the Chietti Document
[Source] The Role of the Bishop of Rome in the communion of the Churches in the First Millenium * [In
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Non-Commemorating Athonite Monks: Patriarch Bartholomew has surpassed all the heretics!
[Source] An interview with Hieromonk Sava of the Great Lavra and Fr. Nikodim of Romanian Skete of St. John the
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Tome of St. Leo the Great
August 09, 2015 NFTU Note: After the Tome of St. Leo was read at the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, the
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On the Two Natures of Christ by St. John of Damascus
June 02, 2015 (Source: http://www.orthodox.net/fathers) [For additional and more contemporary material dealing with Monophysitism in its various forms and fundamental Orthodox
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