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Canons of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (Constantinople II)

The Fifth Council issued dogmatic definitions and anathemas rather than a separate body of disciplinary canons; its canonical force rests in its condemnations.

Source & text status

The acts and anathemas (ACO tom. 4); see the council record.

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.