MONOTHELITES).
The remaining sessions were occupied with matters of discipline, episcopal jurisdiction, organization of diocese and parish, occupa tions of the clergy and the like ; and confirmed the third canon of the second oecumenical council, which accorded to Constanti nople equal privileges (iaa 7rp€aj3EZa) with Rome, and the sec ond rank among the patriarchates, and, in addition, granted to Constantinople patriarchal jurisdiction over Pontus, Asia and Thrace. The Roman legates, who were absent (designedly?) when this famous (xxviii.) canon was adopted, protested against it, but in vain, the imperial commissioners deciding in favour of its regularity and validity. Leo I., although he recognized the council as oecumenical and confirmed its doctrinal decrees, re jected canon xxviii. on the ground that it contravened the 6th canon of Nicaea and infringed the rights of Alexandria and An tioch. In what proportion zeal for the ancient canons and the rights of others, and jealous fear of encroachment upon his own jurisdiction, were mixed in the motives of Leo, it would be in teresting to know. The canon was universally received in the East (see CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF).
The emperor Marcian approved the doctrinal decrees of the council and enjoined silence in regard to theological questions. Eutyches and Dioscurus and their followers were deposed and banished.
See Hefele, Church Councils (2nd ed.) ii. pp. 394-578 (Eng. trans., iii. pp. 268-464) ; also bibliographies in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklo padie, 3rd ed., s.v., "Eutyches" (by Loofs) and s.v. "Nestorianer" (by Kessler) ; and the general histories of Christian Doctrine.