Fifth Session

¹ SESSION V.

² In the month of January, the 25th, on the 3rd day [Tuesday], in the 9th indiction, with Photios the most holy and ecumenical patriarch presiding in the right part of the catechumens’ [gallery] of the Great Church; and seated together with him Paul and Eugenius the most God-beloved bishops and legates of elder Rome; and also Peter the most reverent presbyter and cardinal; and moreover Basil the most God-beloved bishop of Martyropolis and legate of the Church of Antioch; and Elias the most reverent presbyter and legate of Jerusalem; and Kosmas the most reverent presbyter and apokrisiarios of Alexandria; and the most God-beloved, etc.—Photios the most holy patriarch proclaims, concerning the Second [Council] at Nicaea in Bithynia [the Savior’s], and concerning [the matter of] Adrian the most [reverend] pope of Rome and of the [holy] patriarchs of Constantinople, that the church among us [should] be named [the Seventh]; and now he proclaims to the rest of the holy churches that legations [come] to the synods on equal terms with them. And the Church of the Romans, and likewise the thrones of the East, [should] accept and embrace her doctrine without troubling it, and concur with her, together with the rest of the holy ecumenical synods, and proclaim it to them [as] the Seventh.