THE STORY OF THE COPTS - THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT

the great city of Constantinople, and has buried it with great honour in the Church of the Apostles where his predecessors, the ...

The council of Chalcedon was inaugurated on the eighth of October 451 A.D. No two historians are agreed on the number of bishop ...

convocation that had been signed by the late Emperor Theodosius, neither did anyone say that the Emperors of the Orient only cou ...

Such an act denoted the complete disregard of the Chalcedonians for the decrees of the third ecumenical council. As soon as The ...

bishop’s dignity to refuse signing what he knows not specifically when it is that which concerns the majesty of the Faith”.^45 ...

Once more, the chief notary resumed the reading of the minutes. After reading the confession of Eutyches, Basilius bishop of Se ...

Fathers of the Alexandrian Church define as “the one Nature of God the Word made flesh” and is synonymous with St. John’s saying ...

Tomos, and their faces expressed their perplexity. The civil judges observing their confusion asked: “Are they are thought-provo ...

faith. One of these accusations was the age old one of preventing the Egyptian corn from being sent to other parts of the Empire ...

When the civil judges (being the imperial commissioners) heard of what had happened, they were filled with anger. Going straigh ...

The Council, having passed this inequitable verdict on Abba Dioscorus, continued to convene. In the session reckoned the fifth, ...

saintly Bishop Macari of Edko, he fain would have gone with them too. But Abba Dioscorus told him, “You go back to our beloved c ...

in any land, for – as the Psalmist says – the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof”. The merchant’s heart was comforted, ...

of the subject, in which he said that Dioscorus was not judged because his faith was suspect, but because he refused to accept t ...

C. Reverberations Far-reaching Results Tyranny in face of loyalty Leo writes to the intruder. For the Church Universal, the Cou ...

forecast came to pass when the imperial officer struck him to death upon his refusal to sign the document presented to him. His ...

XVIII. NOTES Neale. Op. cit. Vol. I, pp. 278-301. Guettee. vol. IV, p. 547; also The Council of Chalcedon trans. into Arabic fr ...

Hefele, II, p. 558. Neale. I, p. 290. Mar Sawiris Ya’kub. Op. cit. Vol. II, p. 118. It should be noted here that the Roman dele ...

Council of Chalcedon... p. 63-7; Mar Sawiris Ya’kub v. II, p. 150. Council of Chalcedon... p. 67-72. Guettee. IV, p. 572; G. Ma ...

Council of Chalcedon... p. 75-6. Hefele. II. P. 590. Council of Chalcedon... p. 75-9. Guettee. IV, pp. 582-3; Papaute... p. 100 ...