# Historia ecclesiastica 5.9.16

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.9.16

τῆς δὲ πρεσβυτάτης καὶ ὄντως ἀποστολικῆς ἐκκλησίας τῆς >ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας, ἐν ᾗ πρώτῃ τὸ τίμιον τῶν >ἐχρημάτισεν ὄνομα, τὸν αἰδεσιμώτατον καὶ θεοφιλέστατον >Φλαβιανὸν οἵ τε τῆς ἐπαρχίας καὶ τῆς ἀνατολικῆς διοικήσεως >δραμόντες κανονικῶς ἐχειροτόνησαν, πάσης συμψήφου τῆς >ὥσπερ διὰ μιᾶς φωνῆς τὸν ἄνδρα τιμησάσης· ἥνπερ ἔνθεσμον ἐδέξατο καὶ τὸ τῆς συνόδου κοινόν,

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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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