{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140752.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140752.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140752.htm","text":"XII. 608\nThe Encyclical Letter of Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople and of the Holy Synod Met with Him to All the Holy Metropolitans and to the Pope of the City of Rome. 609\nTo the most beloved of God, fellow-minister, Gennadius and the most holy synod assembled in the royal city which is New Rome, sendeth greeting.\nAs our Lord without money and without price ordained his Apostles, so should we ordain the clergy, for the Lord has placed us in their grade and in their stead (\u1f10\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd \u03b2\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03cc\u03bd \u03c4\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u03cc\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd). Nor should we use any ingenious sophisms to avoid this plain duty, explicitly laid upon us, not only by the words of the Gospel but also by a canon of the great Ecumenical Synod of Chalcedon.\nThe Greeks speak of the canons of The Thirteen Holy Fathers, counting in the number St. Cyprian\u2019s canon, but as this was really Synodal I have placed it in that category.\n615:609\nIn this I have not followed Johnson, but translated from Beveridge, Synod., Tom. II., p. 181.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: Appendix containing Canons and Rulings not having Conciliar Origin but Approved by Name in Canon II. of the Synod in Trullo.: The Encyclical Letter of Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople and of the Holy Synod Met with Him to All the Holy Metropolitans and to the Pope of the City of Rome.","type":"page"}