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834 27. the definition and enforcement <strong>of</strong> orthodoxy<br />

The ironical task <strong>of</strong> Chalcedonian bishops and highly placed secular<br />

<strong>of</strong>ficials, to which they were sometimes directed by the imperial government,<br />

became to resolve doctrinal squabbles among Monophysite groups in<br />

the hope <strong>of</strong> effecting a unified block with whom Chalcedonians might enter<br />

dialogue. Not even the energetic efforts <strong>of</strong> the emperor Heraclius in the<br />

seventh century with his monoenergist and monothelite formulae would<br />

succeed in achieving either undisputed orthodoxy or ecclesiastical unity in<br />

the empire.<br />

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