The Sentence Against the Monothelites.
Session XIII.
(L. and C.,
Concilia
, Tom. VI., col. 943.)
The holy council said: After we had reconsidered,
according to our promise which we had made to your highness, the
doctrinal letters of Sergius, at one time patriarch of this royal
god-protected city to Cyrus, who was then bishop of Phasis and to
Honorius some time Pope of Old Rome, as well as the letter of the
latter to the same Sergius, we find that these documents are quite
foreign to the apostolic dogmas, to the declarations
of the holy Councils, and to all the accepted
Fathers, and that they follow the false teachings of the heretics;
therefore we entirely reject them, and execrate them as hurtful to the
soul. But the names of those men whose doctrines we execrate must
also be thrust forth from the holy Church of God, namely, that of
Sergius some time bishop of this God-preserved royal city who was the
first to write on this impious doctrine; also that of Cyrus of
Alexandria, of Pyrrhus, Paul, and Peter, who died bishops of this
God-preserved city, and were like-minded with them; and that of
Theodore sometime bishop of Pharan, all of whom the most holy and
thrice blessed Agatho, Pope of Old Rome, in his suggestion to our most
pious and God-preserved lord and mighty Emperor, rejected, because they
were minded contrary to our orthodox faith, all of whom we define are
to be subjected to anathema. And with these we define that there
shall be expelled from the holy Church of God and anathematized
Honorius who was some time Pope of Old Rome, because of what we found
written by him to Sergius, that in all respects he followed his view
and confirmed his impious doctrines. We have also examined the
synodal letter of Sophronius of holy memory, some time Patriarch of the
Holy City of Christ our God, Jerusalem, and have found it in accordance
with the true faith and with the Apostolic teachings, and with those of
the holy approved Fathers. Therefore we have received it as
orthodox and as salutary to the holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and
have decreed that it is right that his name be inserted in the diptychs
of the Holy Churches.