# Historia ecclesiastica 5.9.15

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 9. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.9.15

οἷς ἀκολούθως τάς τε λοιπὰς ἐκκλησίας παρ’>ἡμῖν οἰκονομεῖσθαι γινώσκετε καὶ τῶν ἐπισημοτάτων >ἀναδεδεῖχθαι τοὺς ἱερεῖς. ὅθεν τῆς μὲν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει >παγοῦς, ὡς ἂν εἴποι τις, ἑκκλησίας, ἢν ὥσπερ ἐκ στόματος >τος τῆς τῶν αἱρετικῶν βλασφημίας ὑπόγυον ἐξηρπάσαμεν διὰ >οἰκτιρμῶν τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸν αἰδεσιμώτατον καὶ θεοφιλέστατον >κτάριον ἐπίσκοπον κεχειροτονήκαμεν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκουμενικῆς >μετὰ κοινῆς ὁμονοίας, ὑπ’ ὄψεσι καὶ τοῦ θεοφιλεστάτου >Θεοδοσίου παντός τε τοῦ κλήρου καὶ πάσης ἐπιψηφιζομένης πόλεως.

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Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. Léon Parmentier. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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