[213] Constant. Ep. Rom. Pontif. Inn. I. ep. 13. Bonif. I. ep. 4. Coelest. I. ep. 3. Sixt. III. ep. 10.
[214] "Vices enim nostras ita tuæ credidimus caritati, ut in partem sis vocatus sollicitudinis, non in plenitudinem potestatis." Ep. 14. ad Anast. Thessal. edit. Ball. tom. i.
[215] The name of patriarch is first mentioned in the Council of Chalcedon, Act 3, where Pope St. Leo is thus addressed: "Sanctissimo et universali Archiepiscopo et Patriarchæ magnæ Romæ." (Labbe, Col. tom. iv.)
[216] Leo M. ep. 14, cap. 11.
[217] "Quum omnium par esset electio, uni tamen datum est, ut cæteris præemineret."
[218] Mansi, xv. col. 202.
[219] Cf. canon ix. of the same council.
[220] That is, in the East. Pithœus, Codex Canon. Vetus, p. 102, (edit. Paris.)
[221] Mansi. l. c. p. 688.
[222] Thomassin, Ballerini, Devoti, Walter, Philipps, Schulte, Döllinger, Blondel, Luden, Schönemann, the last three Protestants, all of whom, says Janus, betray a very imperfect "knowledge of the decretals." (P. 78.)