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The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 (Hardcover)
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The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 (Hardcover)
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 79
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The Council of Constantinople of 869-70 was highly dramatic, with
its trial and condemnation of Patriarch Photius, a towering figure
in the Byzantium of his day, and the tussle of wills at the council
between the papal legates, the imperial representatives and the
bishops. It was church politics and personalities rather than
issues of doctrine, such as icon veneration, that dominated the
debates. Out of all the acts of the great early councils, the acts
of this council, of which this edition is the first modern
translation, are the nearest to an accurate and complete record.
Its protest against secular interference in ecclesiastical
elections was taken up later in the West and led to this council's
being accorded full ecumenical status, although it had been
repudiated in Byzantium soon after it was held. No early council
expresses so vividly the tension between Rome's claim to supreme
authority and the Byzantine reduction of this to a primacy of
honour.
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