St. Julius I, 337-352

If, however, any of these in time past have been in the clerical order, if indeed they have appeared spotless and above reproach, after being baptized, let them be ordained by the bishop of the Catholic Church. . . .

57. Can. 13. Concerning these, who approach death, even now the ancient and regular law will be kept; so that, if anyone is departing from the body, he be not deprived of the last and necessary viaticum. But if after being despaired of, and receiving communion, and being made a sharer of the oblation, he again regains his health, let him be among those who receive only the communion of prayer. Generally, however, to everyone without exception placed at death and requesting that the grace of communion be given him, the bishop probably ought to give from the oblation.

57*. Synodal letter to the Egyptians concerning the error of Arius and the ordinations made by Melitius see Kch n 410 f.

St. Marcus 336

ST. JULIUS I 337-352

The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff¹

[From the epistle "'Ανέγνων τὰ γράμματα" to the Antiochenes, in the year 341]

57a. For if, indeed as you assert, some sin has risen among them, a judicial investigation ought to have been made according to the ecclesiastical canon, and not in this manner. Everyone should have written to us, in order that thus what was just might be decided by all; for the bishops were the ones who suffered, and it was not the ordinary churches that were harassed, but which the apostles themselves governed in person. Yet why has nothing been written to us, especially regarding the Alexandrian church? Or do you not know that it is the custom to write to us first, and that here what is just is decided? Certainly if any suspicion of this nature did fall upon the bishop of that city, the fact should have been written to this church.

COUNCIL OF SERDICA 343-344

The Primacy of the Roman Pontiff²

57b.

[Authentic text] [Can. 3] (Isid. 4). Caius the bishop said: That also, ...

[Greek version] 3. Hosius the bishop said: It is necessary to de-