Council of Serdica

The Council of Serdica, or Synod of Serdica[1] (also Sardica located in modern-day Sofia, Bulgaria), was a synod convened in 343 at Serdica in the civil diocese of Dacia, by Emperors Constans I, Augustus in the West, and Constantius II, Augustus in the East.[2][a] It attempted to resolve "the tension between East and West in the Church."[4] “The council was a disaster: the two sides, one from the west and the other from the east, never met as one.”[5][b]

  1. ^ a b DH 2012, p. 54.
  2. ^ Mirbt 1911.
  3. ^ Socrates Scholasticus, Historia ecclesiastica, 2.20 (NPNF2 2, pp. 46–47).
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  6. ^ Socrates Scholasticus, Historia ecclesiastica, 2.20 (NPNF2 2, pp. 46–47).
  7. ^ NPNF2 2, pp. 46–47.
  8. ^ Athanasius, Apologia contra Arianos, n. 49–50 (NPNF2 4, pp. 126–127), Epistola ad solitarios, n. 15, cited in NPNF2 2, p. 47.


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