A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

THEODORUS I.

AFter John IV's. Death, THEODORUS was chosen in his room, in November, the Year 641. He wrote two Letters, and a Memoir, against Pyrrhus, Patriarch of Con∣stantinople, * 1.1 who had been depriv'd, and Paul put in his room. 'Tis to this last Theodorus's first Letter is directed. He sends him Word, That Pyrrhus ought to be condemned and deposed in a Synod, for commending Heraclius, and going about to make a new Profession of Faith. He tells him, That in case he could not get him condemned in his Country, he must only pray the Emperor to cause him to be brought to Rome, and that he will get him judg'd in a Council. The Second Letter is directed to the Bishops who had ordain'd Paul. He finds Fault with them for ordaining him before they had deposed Pyrrhus, and for giving him the Title of Most Holy. He takes notice of the Reasons, why he should be condemned; 1. Because he had commended Heraclius; and, 2. Because he had made a new Profession of Faith, contrary to the Apostolick Doctrine, against the Prohibition of the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon. In the Memoir he exhorts the Eastern Bishops, to preserve the Ancient Faith of the Church, and to reject the Novelties brought in by Pyrrhus, and his Confession of Faith.

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• * 1.1

  Theodorus I.