the Liber Diurnus does not expect the Pope to
acknowledge the Eighth Council, for the new Pontiff must swear, among other
things, that he admits seven oecumenical councils:
Sancta quoque VII
universalia concilia, id est Nicenum, Constantinopolitanum, Ephesinum primum,
Chalcedonense, V quoque et VI idem Constantinopolitanum et VII item Nicenum
usque ad unum apicem immutabilia servare et pari honore et veneratione digna
habere et quae predicaverunt et statuerunt, omnimodis sequi et praedicare,
quaeque condemnaverunt, ore et corde condemno. [RB: Likewise,
I firmly maintain the holy seven ecumenical councils, that is, the Nicene,
Constantinopolitan, the First Council of Ephesus, the Council of Chalcedon, as
well as the Fifth and Sixth, both of Constantinople, and the Seventh, again of
Nicaea, as immutable in every point, and hold them worthy of equal honor and
veneration. I fully follow and proclaim what they have taught and decreed, and
I condemn, with both mouth and heart, whatever they have condemned.]
The words are very plain and leave no room for doubt . .
. (Francis Dvornik, The Photian Schism [Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1948, 1970], 440)
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