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Canons of the Second Ecumenical Council (Constantinople I)

Canons confirming the Nicene faith, defining the reception of heretics, and ordering the sees.

Showing 2 of 7 canons. The remainder are being entered from the public domain sources; each canon here is labelled by the status of its text.

Topic

  1. Canon 1The heresies anathematized

    Editorial interpretation

    The faith of Nicaea stands, and the heresies are anathematized by name: the Eunomians, the Arians, the Semi-Arians, the Sabellians, the Marcellians, and the Apollinarians.

  2. Canon 7The reception of heretics

    Editorial interpretation

    Certain heretics returning are received by chrismation upon renouncing their heresy; others, whose baptism was invalid, are received as pagans, by baptism.

Source & text status

Public domain text: NPNF 2nd ser., vol. 14 (to be transcribed); summaries by this library.

Full canonical texts, Greek and public domain English, in St Nikodemos' Pēdalion and in Rhalles and Potles, Σύνταγμα; the public domain English of the councils in Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, vol. 14.

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