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Letter 92 [inc. "Quid de dilectionis"]

Leo the Great informs Bishop Julian of Cos about the forthcoming council convoked by the Emperor (the Council of Chalcedon). He says that Julian has better knowledge of the affairs in the East than the legates dispatched from the West - Bishops Paschasinus, Lucentius, and the Presbyters Basil and Boniface. Leo asks then Julian to help his legates and join them as the papal representative. The letter is given on the 6th day before the Kalends of July in the consulship of Adelfius [=26 July 451].

(Patrologia Latina 54, 936 = Ballerini 1753: 1066-1067)

Discussion:

Place of event:

Region

Rome
East

City

Rome
Constantinople
Cos

About the source:

Author: Leo the Great
Title: Letters, Epistulae
Origin: Rome (Rome)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Leo the Great was the bishop of Rome from AD 440 to his death in AD 461. We have the collection of 173 letters of Leo.

Edition:

P. and G. Ballerini eds., Sancti Leoni Magni Romani pontificis opera, vol. 1, Venice 1753

Patrologia Latina, vol. 54

Translation:

Leo the Great, Letters, trans. Ch. Lett Feltoe, [in:] The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd series, vol. 12, Edinburgh 1895, 1-114

Bibliography:

S. Wessel, Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome, Leiden ; Boston 2008.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Ecclesiastical administration - Participation in councils and ecclesiastical courts

Ecclesiastical administration - Ecclesiastical envoy

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1777, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1777