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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

801–900

The Ninth Century

2 works

869–870

Greek and Latin

The Acts of the Council of 869–870

The Council of Constantinople

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.

Ecumenical · Conciliar actsMatthewActsGalatiansRead elsewhere

879–880

Greek

The Acts of the Council of 879–880

The Council of Constantinople

Three hundred and eighty-three bishops, with Roman legates present and consenting, restore Photius, annul the council of 869, and forbid any addition to the creed of 381 — which the Franks had already made and Rome would eventually adopt.

Byzantine · Conciliar actsJohnMatthewActsRead elsewhere