Canons of the Councils of the Early Church

Today’s free book is a collection of primary sources from the early church – eight canons of Church Councils in both patristic Greek and in Latin. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain work available for digitisation.

William Lambert [1536-1601], Codex Canonum Ecclesæ Universæ. The Canons of the First Four General Councils of the Church, and those of the Early Local Greek Synods, in Greek, with Latin and revised English translations in parallel columns, with notes selected from Zonaras, Balsamon, bishop Beveridge, etc. London: R.D. Dickinson, 1868. Hbk. pp.175. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction

1. Canons of the Council of Nicæa
2. Canons of the Council of Constantinople
3. Canons of the Council of Chalcedon
4. Canons of the Council of Ancyra
5. Canons of the Council of Neocæsarea
6. Canons of the Council of Gangra
7. Canons of the Council of Antioch
8. Canons of the Council of Laodicea