The Medieval Church · 869–870
The Acts of the Council of 869–870
The Council of Constantinople
What it is
Photius is deposed and anathematised, his ordinations annulled, and the Roman position upheld — with only a hundred and two bishops present at the close, most of the East having stayed away. Its Greek acts were destroyed and it survives chiefly in Anastasius Bibliothecarius's Latin.
Why it lasted
Counted as the Eighth Ecumenical Council by Rome. Ten years later another council in the same city reversed it, and the East counts that one instead — so the two churches disagree not on the interpretation of an ecumenical council but on which one it was.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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