COUNCILS OF ORANGE. The most important of these is the council of 529, when fifteen bishops, under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles, assembled primarily to dedicate a church, the gift of Liberius, the lieutenant of Theodoric, in Gaul, at what proved to be one of the most important councils of the 6th cen tury. Caesarius had sought the aid of Rome against semi-Pelagian ism, and in response Pope Felix IV. had sent certain capitula con cerning grace and free-will, drawn chiefly from the writings of Augustine and Prosper. These to the number of twenty-five the synod subscribed, and adopted a supplementary statement, reaf firming the Augustinian doctrines of corruption, human inability, prevenient grace and baptismal regeneration. Its acts were con firmed by Boniface II. on the "25th of January 53o," a date which is open to question.
See F. H. Woods, Canons of the Second Council of Orange (Oxford, 1882).