Letter to the Council of Carthage · §2

Greeting and Receipt of the African Letter

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of December they were sent. To my most honored and most holy lords, brothers and fellow bishops Aurelius and Valentinus, and to the whole most holy synod gathered at Carthage — Cyril, greeting your charity in the Lord.

What your honor wrote, full of deep devotion, I received with all joy through our son Innocent the presbyter.

And since you set this hope upon us — that from the archive of our church we would send to your charity the truest copies of the authentic synod held in Nicaea, the metropolis of Bithynia,

Greek

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

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Cyril of Alexandria, Ad Carthaginiense concilium (Greek).

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