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Magisterium, Texts Approved by Synod of Trullo
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The Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles.
The Epistle of the Same Athanasius Taken from the XXXIX. Festal Epistle.
The Epistle of St. Athanasius to Ruffinian.
The Second Canonical Epistle of the Same.
The Third Epistle of the Same to the Same.
From an Epistle of the Same to the Blessed Amphilochius on the Difference of Meats.
Of the Same to Diodorus Bishop of Tarsus, concerning a Man who had taken Two Sisters to Wife.
Of the Same to Gregory a Presbyter, that He Should Separate from a Woman who Dwelt with Him.
Of the Same to the Chorepiscopi, that No Ordinations Should Be Made Contrary to the Canons.
Of the Same to His Suffragans that They Should Not Ordain for Money.
The Commonitory of the Same which Ammon Received on Account of Lycus.
Of the Same to Agatho the Bishop.
Of the Same to Menas the Bishop.
The Narrative of the Same concerning Those Called Cathari.
XII. 1 The Greeks speak of the canons of The Thirteen Holy Fathers, counting in the number St. Cyprian’s canon, but as this was really Synodal I have placed it in that category.
The Encyclical Letter of Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople and of the Holy Synod Met with Him to All the Holy Metropolitans and to the Pope of the City of Rome. 2 In this I have not followed Johnson, but translated from Beveridge, Synod., Tom. II., p. 181.
To the most beloved of God, fellow-minister, Gennadius and the most holy synod assembled in the royal city which is New Rome, sendeth greeting.
As our Lord without money and without price ordained his Apostles, so should we ordain the clergy, for the Lord has placed us in their grade and in their stead (ἐις τὸν ἐκείνων βαθηόν τε καὶ τόπον). Nor should we use any ingenious sophisms to avoid this plain duty, explicitly laid upon us, not only by the words of the Gospel but also by a canon of the great Ecumenical Synod of Chalcedon.