Council Of Chalcedon
The Council of Chalcedon is the fourth Ecumenical Council and took place in 451 in the church of St. Euphemia the namesake city today Kadky , an upscale neighborhood of the Asian side of Istanbul.
Convened by the Byzantine Emperor Marcian and his wife Empress Pulcherie he meets from 8 October 451 343 bishops, a record, only 4 of which come from the West. In continuation of preceding councils, it focuses on various problems Christological and condemns in particular the monophysitism of Eutyches and Dioscorus on the basis of the letter of Pope Leo I called Tome to Flavian of Constantinople (name of the patriarch of Constantinople , recipient of the letter of the Pope ). It was during this council that is redefined the notion of person:
- as the principle of differentiation within the relational mystery of a God both one and three;
- as the principle of unity and identity, in the case of the two natures in the one person of Christ.
With regard to the Virgin Mary, the council decreed that it will now be called "Mother of God" or " Theotokos. "
However, the bishop of Rome, Leo the Great , refuses to accept the twenty-eighth canon of the council who, by giving the city of Constantinople the title of "New Rome", thus granted him precedence over other patriarchates.
Some Eastern Christians Monophysite reject the entire council, producing a schism which form what is now called the Churches of the three councils or "pre-Chalcedonian Churches."
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- (In) The Acts Of The Council of Chalcedon (translated, introduced and annotated by Richard Price and Michael Gaddis), Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2005 ( ISBN 0-85323-039-0 ), 3 vols. Vol. 1: General introduction; Documents Before the Council, Session I, XVI-365 p. Vol. 2: Sessions II-X session and it Carosus Dorotheus; Session on Eustathius and Photius; Session on Domnus, X-312 p. Vol. 3: Sessions XI-XVI After the Council documents, appendices, glossary, bibliography, maps, indices, X-312 p.
- (En) Pierre Thomas Camelot, The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon: 431 and 451, Fayard, Paris, 2006, 257 p. ( ISBN 2-213-62986-2 )
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- (En) "The Council of Chalcedon sketched by Jean Xiphilin" (Francois Halkin article in Journal of Byzantine Studies, 1966, vol. 24, No. 24, p. 182-188)
- Article "Council of Chalcedon" universal and comprehensive dictionary of the councils
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