Acts of the Third Council of Constantinople
The minutes and documents of the council that met in the imperial palace at Constantinople in 680–681 and defined that Christ has two wills and two operations, divine and human. They include the sentence that condemned Pope Honorius by name.
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The council sat in eighteen sessions in the domed hall of the palace, with the emperor Constantine IV presiding. Its minutes survive in Greek and in an early Latin translation. They preserve the documents that were read out, chief among them the long letter of Pope Agatho to the emperor, and the texts the council itself issued: the sentence of the thirteenth session against those who had taught one will in Christ, the definition of faith, an address to the emperor and a letter to the pope.
These are the council’s own words and the first evidence for what it decided. Percival’s version is a selection, with his summaries in square brackets and his own notes on the condemnation of Honorius; the notes are a later scholar’s opinion and are not cited here.
Cited in
- AD 680 to AD 681, firm date