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St Photius the Great, tr. Freese, 1920; selections
18. Codex 18: Acts of the Fifth Council—Constantinople
Read the Acts of the fifth council,1 at which the three so-called “chapters”2 were dealt with, and Origen and his writings excommunicated, together with Diodorus of Tarsus,3 and Theodore of Mopsuestia. Theodoret’s answer to the twelve anathematisms of Cyril was also excommunicated. Previous to this, the cases of Zooras4 and Anthimus,5 who wormed his way into the patriarchate of Constantinople, and certain other matters were discussed.
Notes
- Of Constantinople (553).
- The writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia; of Theodoret in defence of Nestorius; the letter of Ibas to the Persian Maris.
- Founder of the exegetical school of Antioch, bishop of Tarsus (378-394).
- A Monophysite Syrian monk.
- Anthimus, patriarch of Constantinople (535, deposed 536), translated from the episcopate of Trapezus through the influence of the empress Theodora.