Decree on the
Jurisdiction of Jerusalem and Antioch.
Session VII.
(Labbe and Cossart,
Concilia
, Tom. IV., col.
618.)
The most magnificent and glorious judges said:…The
arrangement arrived at through the agreement of the most holy Maximus,
the bishop of the city of Antioch, and of the most holy Juvenal, the
bishop of Jerusalem, as the attestation of each of them declares, shall
remain firm for ever, through our decree and the sentence of the holy
synod; to wit, that the most holy bishop Maximus, or rather the most
holy church of Antioch, shall have under its own jurisdiction the two
Phœnicias and Arabia; but the most holy Juvenal, bishop of
Jerusalem, or rather the most holy Church which is under him, shall
have under his own power the three Palestines, all imperial pragmatics
and letters and penalties being done away according to the bidding of
our most sacred and pious prince.
Note.
The Ballerini, in their notes to the Works of St. Leo
(Migne,
Pat. Lat
., LV., col. 733
et seqq
.), cite
fragments of the Acts of this council, which if they can be trusted,
shew that this matter of the rights of Antioch and Jerusalem was
treated of again at a subsequent session (on Oct. 31) and determined in
the same fashion. These fragments have generally been received as
genuine, and have been inserted by Mansi (Tom. vii., 722 C.) in his
Concilia
.
The notes of the Ballerini may also be read with profit,
in the same volume of Migne’s
Latin Patrology
, col. 737
et seq
.