Letter to the Council of Carthage

1To the council at Carthage.

And they signed. May our Lord keep you for us for very many years, most blessed brother. Likewise signed Alypius, Augustine, Possidius, Marinus, and the rest of the bishops.

Here begin the replies of Cyril, bishop of the Alexandrians, to the synod in Africa, in which he sent through Innocent the presbyter the authentic acts of the council at Nicaea translated from the Greek — which letters, together with the council of Nicaea, were sent through the aforementioned presbyter Innocent and Marcellus the subdeacon of the church at Carthage to the most holy Boniface, bishop of the Roman church, on the sixth day before the kalends

2of December they were sent. To my most honored and most holy lords, brothers and fellow bishops Aurelius and Valentinus, and to the whole most holy synod gathered at Carthage — Cyril, greeting your charity in the Lord.

What your honor wrote, full of deep devotion, I received with all joy through our son Innocent the presbyter.

And since you set this hope upon us — that from the archive of our church we would send to your charity the truest copies of the authentic synod held in Nicaea, the metropolis of Bithynia,

3the measures defined and confirmed by the holy fathers, set down beneath the confession of our faith — I judged it necessary, most honored lord brothers, with a greeting leading the way, to send through the same our son Innocent the presbyter the most faithful copies of the authentic

4synod in the city of Nicaea in Bithynia, bound together with this my loving letter — which you will also find by searching in the church history.

But concerning Easter, as you wrote, we announce to you that we shall celebrate it on the seventeenth day before the kalends of May in the coming indiction.

The subscription. May God and our Lord guard your holy synod, as we pray, most honored brothers.