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 prerogative of honour after your most Holy and Apostolic Chair; convinced, that as, without jealousy, you distribute your favours to your brethren, you would extend, as usual, your care to the Constantinopolitan Church, and enlighten it with your apostolic ray. Vouchsafe then, most holy Father, to admit what we have decreed. Your delegates, it is true, strenuously opposed the measure, willing, doubtless, to leave the honour of it to you; that the cause of order, as well as of faith, might be indebted to you. In what we did, we listened to the voice of the Emperor, of the senate, and of our imperial city. We entreat you, therefore, to honour our sentence by your sanction; and that, as we agree with the head in good things, so the head may fulfil for the children what is becoming The Emperor will be gratified, who gave to our decision the force of law; and the Chair of Constantinople, by its union with you, and by its zeal, will on every occasion attest its gratitude.” Conc. Gen. T. iv. p. 836-7.

St. LEO, L.C. In 453, he writes to the Bishop of the Apostolic See of Antioch :-“ It behoves you attentively to consider over what Church the Lord has appointed you to preside, and to recollect the doctrine which the blessed Peter, the chief of all the Apostles, established; indeed, in the whole world, but by an especial instruction in the cities of Antioch and Rome. It behoves you often to inform us of what is doing. Being engaged in this solicitude with our Chair, take care that the privileges of the third See be