Peter Was Given No Hearing

…to be honored with the very title of bishop. But perhaps what I say may seem to your piety somewhat harsh and unbrotherly; yet in truth it is not so. For we suppose, perhaps, that we have shown the old man mercy by leaving him only the title; but it would have been far better to consider the other side as well. For he says that he could clear his good name, but that he was given no opportunity to defend himself, nor indeed was he granted a canonical hearing. Had anything of the kind taken place, the record of the proceedings would itself have made his case plain: either proving that he had been caught by the charges and declared guilty, with nothing more to say as one who had been wronged, or else declaring him free and giving him back the right to preside over the church that had been placed under his hand. But since nothing of the kind was done, he cries out against what has happened; he says that he has suffered intolerable injustice…