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Hadrian II, 867-872

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by a certain Jew, you do not know whether Christian or pagan, and you consult us as to what should be done about them. If indeed they have been baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity or only in the name of Christ, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles [cf. Acts 2:38; 19:5], (surely it is one and the same, as Saint Ambrose1 sets forth) it is established that they should not be baptized again.

HADRIAN II 867-872

COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE IV, 869-870

Ecumenical VIII (against Photius)

Canons against Photius2

In actio I the rule of faith of Hormisdas is read and subscribed [see n. 171 f.]

336. (Text of Anastasius:) Canon 1— We, wishing to advance without offense through the just and regal way of divine justice, ought to retain the definitions and opinions of the Holy Fathers who live according to God as lamps always burning and illuminating our steps. Therefore, judging and believing these as favorable words according to the great and very wise Dionysius,3 likewise regarding these with the divine David we most readily sing: "The Command of the

[Parallel column:] We, wishing to advance without offense through the just and royal way of divine justice, ought to control the definitions of the Holy Fathers as lamps always burning. Therefore, we confess to keep and guard the rules which have been handed down in the Catholic and Apostolic Church by the holy and noted Apostles and by the universal and local orthodox synods or by any Father, teacher of the Church, speaking the word of God. For the great Apostle Paul expressly

  1. De Spiritu Sancto 1, 3, 42 [ML 16, 714]. ↩

  2. Msi XVI 160 A ff. (lat.) 397 D ff. (gr.); ML 129, 150 B ff.; Hrd V 899 A ff.; cf. Hfl IV 417 ff.; Bar(Th) ad 869 n. 11 ff. (15, 151 a ff.).—The authentic acts of this council are not extant. A double form of these canons is preserved, one in Greek the shorter and exhibiting fewer canons, the other from a version of Anastasius, a librarian, who accuses the Greeks of falsifying, and affirms that they transferred something from the authentic acts preserved in the archives of the Roman church. Yet it is remarkable that those acts which favor the Roman pontiff are present in the Greek, and that those which [favor] the Constantinopolitan high priest are lacking. ↩

  3. Pseudo-Dionysius Areop., De eccl. hier. 1, 4 [MG 3, 375]. ↩