Editing First Council of Constantinople (section)

==Canons==
Seven [[canon law|canon]]s, four of these doctrinal canons and three disciplinary canons, are attributed to the council and accepted by both the [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox Church]] and the [[Oriental Orthodoxy|Oriental Orthodox Churches]]; the [[Roman Catholic|Roman Catholic Church]] accepts only the first four<ref name="SevenCouncils">{{cite web |url=http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-14/Npnf2-14-59.htm#P3825_663549 |title=NPNF2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils |website=Christian Classics Ethereal Library |date=2005-06-01 |access-date=2013-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615214631/http://ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-14/Npnf2-14-59.htm#P3825_663549 |archive-date=2006-06-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> because only the first four appear in the oldest copies and there is evidence that the last three were later additions.<ref name="FirstCouncil">{{cite web |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308a.htm |title=NPNF2-14. First Council of Constantinople |website=Christian Classics Ethereal Library |access-date=2015-08-24}}</ref>

* The first canon is an important dogmatic condemnation of all shades of Arianism, and also of Macedonianism and [[Apollinarianism]].<ref name="SevenCouncils" />
* The second canon renewed the Nicene legislation imposing upon the bishops the observance of diocesan and patriarchal limits.<ref name="SevenCouncils" />
* The third canon reads:{{Blockquote|The Bishop of Constantinople, however, shall have the prerogative of honour after the [[Bishop of Rome]] because [[Constantinople]] is [[New Rome]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.ix.viii.iv.html |title=NPNF2-14. Canon III |website=Christian Classics Ethereal Library |date=2005-06-01 |access-date=2011-10-27}}</ref><ref name=FirstCouncil /><ref name=SevenCouncils />}}
* The fourth canon decreed the consecration of [[Archbishop Maximus I of Constantinople|Maximus]] as [[Bishop of Constantinople]] to be invalid, declaring "that [Maximus] neither was nor is a bishop, nor are they who have been ordained by him in any rank of the clergy".<ref name="SevenCouncils" /><ref>{{harvnb|Venables|1911}} cites [[Philippe Labbe]], ''Concilia'', ii. 947, 954, 959.</ref> This canon was directed not only against Maximus, but also against the Egyptian bishops who had conspired to consecrate him clandestinely at Constantinople, and against any subordinate ecclesiastics that he might have ordained in Egypt.<ref name="Ullmann1851">{{cite book|author=Carl Ullmann|title=Gregory of Nazianzum |translator-first=G. V. |translator-last=Cox |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QdcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA241|access-date=21 October 2011|year=1851|pages=241ff}}</ref>
* The fifth canon might actually have been passed the next year, 382, and is in regard to a ''Tome'' of the Western bishops, perhaps that of [[Pope Damasus I]].<ref name="SevenCouncils" />
* The sixth canon might belong to the year 382 as well and was subsequently passed at the [[Quinisext Council]] as canon 95. It limits the ability to accuse bishops of wrongdoing.<ref name="SevenCouncils" />
* The seventh canon regards procedures for receiving certain heretics into the church.<ref name="SevenCouncils" />