Letter to the Council of Carthage · §4

Easter Date and Farewell

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synod in the city of Nicaea in Bithynia, bound together with this my loving letter — which you will also find by searching in the church history.

But concerning Easter, as you wrote, we announce to you that we shall celebrate it on the seventeenth day before the kalends of May in the coming indiction.

The subscription. May God and our Lord guard your holy synod, as we pray, most honored brothers.

Greek

συνόδου τῆς ἐν τῇ Νικαέων πόλει τῆς Βιθυνίας ἐχόμενα τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ ἀποστεῖλαι ἀγάπῃ, ὅπερ 424 καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησιαστικῇ ἱστορίᾳ ζητοῦντες εὑρήσετε. Περὶ δὲ τοῦ πάσχα, ὡς ἐγράψατε, ἀγγέλλομεν ὑμῖν τῇ πρὸ δεκαεπτὰ καλανδῶν μαΐων ἡμᾶς ἐπιτελέσοντας τῇ ἐπεισερχομένῃ ἰνδικτιῶνι. Ἡ ὑπογραφή. Ὁ θεὸς καὶ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν τὴν ἁγίαν ὑμῶν σύνοδον φυλάξοι, ὅπερ εὐχόμεθα, τιμιώτατοι ἀδελφοί.

About this text

Cyril of Alexandria, Ad Carthaginiense concilium (Greek).

Original English Translation of Cyril’s Ad Carthaginiense concilium — new OET from PG 77 Greek.

Witnesses

  • Copy-text PG 77 (Greek)

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