...determine and decree the same things respecting the privileges of the most holy city of Constantinople, New Rome. For the Fathers properly gave the primacy...Rome, because that was the Imperial city. And the one hundred and fifty most religious bishops, being moved with the same intention, gave equal privileges...

...correct, when it denned in its twenty-eighth Canon that " the Fathers properly gave the privileges to the throne of the elder Rome, because that was the imperial city." But it will be observed that all this but ill agrees with the contention of modern Roman Catholics,...

...determine and decree the same things respecting the privileges of the Most Holy City Constantinople, new Rome. For the Fathers properly gave the primacy to the throne of the elder Rome. Baronius, it should be added, considered this canon spurious. 1 oupflo\aia. This is the emendation...

...decree the same things respecting thepriviteges of the most holy city of Constantinople, New Home. For the Fathers properly gave the primacy to the throne of the elder Rome.' Canon 2s. s Canon 2. The words * patriarch,' however, and * patriarch" ate ' are not used in the ccnon....

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...Fathers," says the canon, "properly gave the primacy (01 irarepe? eiVora)? cnroSeStaKairt TO. Trpeir/3eja) to the throne of the elder Rome because that was the Imperial City." The Papal primacy, it is argued, is here based merely upon ecclesiastical consent, and is due to the...