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558 A Source Book for Ancient Church Historyno power in any way to do anything in opposition to the bishopsof the province because he is already cast forth by the synodfrom all ecclesiastical communion, and is without authority; buthe shall be subjected to the same bishops of the province and tothe neighboring bishops who hold the orthodox doctrines, to bedegraded completely from his episcopal rank.II. If any provincial bishops were not present at the holy synod,and have joined or attempted to join the apostasy; or if, aftersubscribing to the deposition of Nestorius, they went back to theassembly of apostasy, these, according to the decree of the holysynod, are to be deposed completely from the priesthood anddegraded from their rank.(e) Council of Ephesus, A. D. 431, Manifesto of John of Antiochand his council against Cyril and his council. Mansi, IV, 1271.[510]The holy synod assembled in Ephesus, by the grace of God and atthe command of the pious emperors, declares: We should indeedhave wished to be able to hold a synod in peace, according tothe canons of the holy Fathers and the letters of our most piousand Christ-loving emperors; but because you held a separateassembly from a heretical, insolent, and obstinate disposition,although, according to the letters of our most pious emperors, wewere in the neighborhood, and because you have filled both thecity and the holy synod with every sort of confusion, in order toprevent the examination of points agreeing with the Apollinarian,Arian, and Eunomian heresies and impieties, and have not waitedfor the arrival of the most religious bishops summoned from allregions by our pious emperors, and when the most magnificentCount Candidianus warned you and admonished you in writingand verbally that you should not hear such a matter, but await the185 The friendly treatment Nestorius had given the exiled Pelagians, when theycame to Constantinople, had led the men of the West to connect Nestorianismwith Pelagianism and to condemn the two as if there was some necessaryconnection between them.