The Presbyters Project

Chapter XIII

At the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451):

85. Agitur perspectis his quae in secunda synodo Ephesena gesta sunt, coram sacro senatu et Constantino ac Veroniciano a secretis, et omni uniuersali concilio cum Pascasino et Lucentio episcopis et Bonifatio presbytero locum tenentibus Leonis papae Romani et Anatolio Constantinopolitano, praesente Dioscoro et omnibus metropolitanis episcopis, ut quaereretur depositio et mors Flauiani, et depositio orthodoxorum episcoporum qui pro fide depositi sunt.

(ed. Schwartz 1936: 120)

Chapter XIII

At the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451):

85. Having examined what happened during the Second Council of Ephesus, it was postulated in front of the holy senate and Constantine and the secretary Veronicianus and the holy universal council with Bishops Pascasinus and Lucentius and Presbyter Bonifatius, who represented Pope Leo, and Anatolius of Constantinople, in the presence of Dioscorus and all the metropolitan bishops, that the deposition and death of Flavianus, and the deposition of the orthodox bishops who were deposed for faith, should be inquired into.

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

Presbyter Bonifatius as a Roman legate at the Council of Chalcedon is also mentioned in the fragment of the acts of Chalcedon quoted by Pope Vigilius in his "Constitutum" from AD 553 (Ep. 83 in the Collectio Avellana).

Place of event:

Region

Rome

City

Chalcedon

About the source:

Author: Liberatus
Title: Breuiarium causae Nestorianorum et Eutychianorum
Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Liberatus was the deacon of Carthage (North Africa). His "Breviary", written between AD 555 and 566, was meant to explain to the Latin audience the history of the Christological controversies in the East. Based on Oriental sources, it covers the period from Nestorius to the condemnation of the Three Chapters.

Edition:

E. Schwartz ed., Liberatus. Breuiarium causae Nestorianorum et Eutychianorum, Acta Conciliorum Oecomunicorum II/5, Berlin-Leipzig 1936, 98-141.

Categories:

Travel and change of residence

PR680.

Ecclesiastical administration - Participation in councils and ecclesiastical courts

PR680.

Ecclesiastical administration - Ecclesiastical envoy

PR680.

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

PR680.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1518, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1518