To the Council of Carthage

And they subscribed. May our Lord preserve you for us for many years, most blessed brother. Likewise subscribed: Alypius, Augustine, Possidius, Marinus, and the rest of the bishops. Here begin the copies of Cyril, bishop of the Alexandrians, to the synod in Africa, in which he sent the authentic canons of the synod in Nicaea, translated from Greek, through Innocent the presbyter; which letters, with the synod in Nicaea, were sent through the aforementioned Innocent the presbyter and Marcellus the subdeacon of the church in Carthage to the most holy Boniface, bishop of the Roman church, on the sixth day before the Kalends of December. To the most honorable and most holy lords, brothers and fellow bishops, Aurelius, Valentinus and to the whole most holy 423 synod assembled in Carthage, Cyril, greeting your love in the Lord. The letter written by your honor, possessing much piety, I received with all joy through our son Innocent the presbyter.

And these things being expected from us, that we should send to your love from the archive of our church the most true copies of the authentic synod in the metropolis of Nicaea of Bithynia, things defined and confirmed by the holy fathers beneath the confession of our faith, I deemed it necessary, most honorable lords, brothers, having first given a greeting, to send through our same son Innocent the presbyter the most faithful copies held from the authentic synod in the city of Nicaea of Bithynia to your love, which 424 you will also find when you search in the ecclesiastical history.

Concerning Pascha, as you wrote, we announce to you that we will celebrate on the seventeenth day before the Kalends of May in the coming indiction. The subscription. May God and our Lord preserve your holy synod, as we pray, most honorable brothers.

Ad Carthaginiense concilium

Καὶ ὑπέγραψαν. Ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν φυλάξοι σε ἡμῖν ἐπὶ πλείστους χρόνους, μακαριώτατε ἀδελφέ. Ὑπέγραψαν ὁμοίως· Ἀλύπιος, Αὐγουστῖνος, Ποσείδιος, Μαρῖνος καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ἐπίσκοποι. Ἄρχεται τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἐν Ἀφρικῇ σύνοδον ἀντίγραφα Κυρίλλου τοῦ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐπισκόπου, ἐν οἷς τὰ αὐθεντικὰ τῆς ἐν Νικαίᾳ συνόδου ἀπὸ γραϊκοῦ μεταβληθέντα διὰ Ἰννοκεντίου πρεσβυτέρου ἀπέστειλεν· αἵτινες ἐπιστολαὶ μετὰ τῆς ἐν Νικαίᾳ συνόδου διὰ τοῦ μνημονευθέντος Ἰννοκεντίου πρεσβυτέρου καὶ Μαρκέλλου ὑποδιακόνου τῆς ἐν Καρχηδόνι ἐκκλησίας τῷ ἁγιωτάτῳ Βονιφατίῳ, ἐπισκόπῳ τῆς ῥωμαϊκῆς ἐκκλησίας τῇ πρὸ ἓξ καλανδῶν δεκεμβρίων ἀπεστάλησαν. Κυρίοις τιμιωτάτοις καὶ ἁγιωτάτοις ἀδελφοῖς καὶ συνεπισκόποις Αὐρηλίῳ, Βαλεντίνῳ καὶ πάσῃ τῇ ἐν Καρχηδόνι συναθροισθείσῃ ἁγιωτά 423 τῃ συνόδῳ, Κύριλλος ἀσπαζόμενος ἐν κυρίῳ τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀγάπην. Τὰ γραφέντα παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας τιμιότητος πολλὴν ἔχοντα θρησκείαν μετὰ πάσης χαρᾶς διὰ τοῦ τέκνου ἡμῶν Ἰννοκεντίου τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου ἐδεξάμην.

Τούτων δὲ παρ' ἡμῶν ἐλπισθέντων, ὥστε ἐκ τοῦ τῆς ἡμετέρας ἐκκλησίας σκρινίου τὰ ἀληθέστατα ἴσα τῆς ἐν τῇ Νικαέων μητροπόλει τῆς Βιθυνίας αὐθεντικῆς συνόδου, τὰ παρὰ τῶν ἁγίων πατέρων ὁρισθέντα καὶ βεβαιωθέντα ὑποκάτω τῆς ὁμολογίας τῆς ἡμετέρας πίστεως τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ἀγάπῃ ἡμᾶς ἀποστεῖλαι, ἀναγκαῖον ἡγησάμην, κύριοι τιμιώτατοι ἀδελφοί, ἀσπασμοῦ προηγουμένου, διὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ τέκνου ἡμῶν Ἰννοκεντίου τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου τὰ πιστότατα ἴσα τὰ τῆς αὐθεντικῆς συνόδου τῆς ἐν τῇ Νικαέων πόλει τῆς Βιθυνίας ἐχόμενα τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ ἀποστεῖλαι ἀγάπῃ, ὅπερ 424 καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησιαστικῇ ἱστορίᾳ ζητοῦντες εὑρήσετε.

Περὶ δὲ τοῦ πάσχα, ὡς ἐγράψατε, ἀγγέλλομεν ὑμῖν τῇ πρὸ δεκαεπτὰ καλανδῶν μαΐων ἡμᾶς ἐπιτελέσοντας τῇ ἐπεισερχομένῃ ἰνδικτιῶνι. Ἡ ὑπογραφή. Ὁ θεὸς καὶ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν τὴν ἁγίαν ὑμῶν σύνοδον φυλάξοι, ὅπερ εὐχόμεθα, τιμιώτατοι ἀδελφοί.