A History of the Councils of the Church from the Original Documents
Karl Josef von Hefele, English tr. · 1871 · Latin West · public-domain-translation
17 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
People it attests
- Formosus 1 claim
- Maximus of Riez 1 claim
- Salonius 1 claim
Documents read in it
- Canons of Orange (441) [object Object]
- Canons of Vaison [object Object]
- Canons of Orléans [object Object]
- Canons of the Second Council of Braga [object Object]
- Canons of the Concilium Germanicum [object Object]
- Sentence against Formosus [object Object]
Events it narrates
- Council of Vaison 442
- Cadaver Synod 897
How the record stands on them
- John the Persian traditional — vol. I p. 269 — 'the signatures of the members of the Council which still remain (it is true they are not of incontestable authenticity) agree with Eusebius and Gelasius; for we there find one John Bishop of Persia'
What else rests on it
2 dispute links · 2 doctrinal positions · 1 person at an event
Where Mansi gives a folio of Greek, Hefele says what happened — every council in order, in English, from the documents, and crucially the hundreds of LOCAL synods the ecumenical seven overshadow. NINETEENTH-CENTURY CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIP written in the run-up to Vatican I: Hefele was a bishop, voted against papal infallibility, then submitted, and his framing of Roman primacy in the early councils is a position rather than a report. The English translation is itself abridged in places.