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

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B. At Chalcedon



  1. Theodosius dies heirless.

  2. Pulcheria discards her vow.

  3. Her lust for power.

  4. Correspondence of Leo and Marcianus.

  5. Marcianus ready to convoke a Council.

  6. Leo’s letter to Marcianus.

  7. Prerogative of Eastern Emperor.

  8. Pulcheria’s letter to Leo.

  9. Leo’s answer.

  10. Inaugurating Council.

  11. Accusing Dioscorus falsely.

  12. Tumult and vacillation.

  13. Minutes of ‘Dioscorian’ Council.

  14. Protest of the Egyptians.

  15. Another false accusation.

  16. Bishop of Seleucia.

  17. Dioscorus confesses his Faith.

  18. Adjournment and re-assembling.

  19. Farcical summons.

  20. Council’s verdict.

  21. Anger of civil judges.

  22. Orthodoxy of Dioscorus.

  23. Emperor exiles Dioscorus.

  24. Four friends share his exile voluntarily.

  25. Correspondents and visits to the exiled Pope.

  26. Rest of Abba Dioscorus.

  27. Witness of some Fathers.

  28. Theopistus write the biography of Dioscorus.

  29. Such was the state of affairs when Emperor
    Theodosius died heirless in A.D. 450. His eldest sister –
    Pulcheria – had the lust for power. So jealous had she

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