During the Third Act of the Council of Constantinople (879-880), the Epistle of Pope John VIII to the Council (sent 879) was read out. The Pope in the following references Luke 22:32:
[6] Therefore truly your thoughtful eagerness unto good
requested that the love of the blessed and chief of the Apostles Peter proved,
that we might gladly receive and jointly accept Photius the most holy patriarch,
restored in the regions of the jurisdiction of the church of the
Constantinopolitans. For holding fast with a zealous and most radiant soul that
which was spoken in the Gospel to the first shepherd, to whom the Lord says, “I
have prayed for thee, Peter, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art
converted, strengthen they brethren,” this we have fulfilled, arising at these
divine words, having confirmed authority (which authority has sounded forth
into every corner of the world)—insofar as we can remain blameless and accused—to
bring help and co-operation to all Christians, and especially following the
example set by God’s hierarchs who came before us, I mean Pope Adrian of
blessed memory, as he did, co-operating with Tarasius the patriarch among the
saints, at a time when some brought turbulence and took a stand against him. (The Acts of the Eighth Ecumenical
Council [trans. Gregory Heers; Uncut Mountain Press, 2025], 254-55)
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