FATHERS.
CENT. II.
St. IRENEUS, L. C.-" To this Church (of Rome) on account of its superior headship, every other must have recourse, that is, the faithful of all countries; in which Church has been preserved the doctrine delivered by the Apostles.” Adv. Hær. L. iii. c. 3. p. 175.
TERTULLIAN, L. C.-“ In Italy you have Rome; an authority to which we (Africans) can readily appeal.”(o) De Præscrip. p. 338.
CENT. III.
St. CYPRIAN, L. C.-In a letter to Cornelius, Bishop of Rome, having stated the irregular conduct of certain African schismatics, who had gone to Rome, he says—“After these attempts, having chosen a Bishop for themselves, they dare to sail, and to carry letters, from schismatics and profane men, to the chair of Peter and to the principal Church, whence the sacerdotal Unity took its rise; not reflecting, that the members of that Church are Romans, (whose Faith was praised by Paul) to whom perfidy can have no access.”(w) Ep.lv. p. 86.
CENT. IV.
St. JULIUS I. L. C.[1]—About the year 341, during the by all.
- ↑ He succeeded St. Mark in the See of St. Peter in 337, and died in 352. We have two letters of this Pope in favour of St. Athanasius;
