Fourth ecumenical council of chalcedon - 1876

Florentius of Sardis was a 5th century

bishop of Sardis The See of Sardis or Sardes ( el, Σάρδεις, ''Sardeis'') was an episcopal see in the city of that name. It was one of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse, held by metropolitan bishops since the middle to late 1st century,Otto F. A. Meina ...

and

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. He was also an attendee to the

Council of Chalcedon The Council of Chalcedon (; la, Concilium Chalcedonense), ''Synodos tēs Chalkēdonos'' was the fourth ecumenical council of the Christian Church. It was convoked by the Roman emperor Marcian. The council convened in the city of Chalcedon, Bi ...

fl 451. where he noted himself by giving impromptu translations of

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text for his Greek speaking colleagues. and at one heated point in the Council, he called for an adjournment. He was also one of 22 delegates who formed a subcommittee of the Council, to examine and formulate the statement for the ecumenical council. In the list of bishops at the council, he appeared in the eleventh position out of 305 bishops, between Peter of Corinth and Eunomius of Nicomedia. He was the recipient of a letter from

Theodoret Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus ( grc-gre, Θεοδώρητος Κύρρου; AD 393 – 458/466) was an influential theologian of the School of Antioch, biblical commentator, and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus (423–457). He played a pi ...

,Theodoret, The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret. who urged Florentius to oppose heresy and support those who are being persecuted.

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{{reflist, 2 Year of birth unknown Church Fathers Bishops of Sardis 5th-century Byzantine bishops Participant in the Council of Chalcedon