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Handout #77 |
Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon 451 A.D. |
| Following in all things the decisions of the holy Fathers, and acknowledging the canon, which has been just read, of the 150 bishops beloved of God who assembled in the imperial city of Constantinople (Constantinople 2, see below), which is New Rome, in the time of the Emperor Theodosius of happy memory, we also do enact and decree the same things concerning the privileges of the most holy church of Constantinople, which is New Rome. For the Fathers rightly granted privileges to the throne of old Rome, because it was the royal city. And the 150 most religious bishops, actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honored with the sovereignty and the senate, and enjoys equal privilege with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is, and rank next after her; so that, in the Pontic, the Asian and the Thracian dioceses, the metropolitans only and such bishops also of the dioceses aforesaid as are among the barbarians, should be ordained by the aforesaid most holy throne of the most holy church of Constantinople ... |
