Evidence for Papal Authority (33 AD to 800 AD) from Original Ancient Latin, Greek, Chaldean, Syriac, Armenian, Coptic, and Ethiopian Documents
Edited by Dr. Robert Sungenis · 2022 · ISBN 978-1-939856-91-3
Scott Butler and John Collorafi argue the case for papal primacy in the first eight centuries almost entirely out of primary sources, over 2,000 of them, translated by the authors from Latin, Greek, Chaldean, Syriac, Armenian, Coptic and Ethiopian. Many appear in English here for the first time. The evidence is not limited to Rome's own claims about itself: much of it is eastern, drawn from liturgical books such as the Menaia, from synaxaria and lives of the saints, and from the acts of the councils, which is to say from what the churches actually prayed and commemorated about Peter and his successors.
The chapters move chronologically, from Caesarea Philippi and the catacombs through Cyprian's quarrel with Pope Stephen, the Arian crisis and Pope Liberius, the decretals of the early popes, Ephesus and Chalcedon, the Formula of Hormisdas, the case of Honorius and the Sixth Ecumenical Council, and on to the popes and Byzantium down to 800 AD. Hard cases are met rather than avoided: Cyprian, Liberius and Honorius each get their own treatment. Robert Sungenis edited and formatted this second edition; publisher's additions are marked as such.
The first edition carried a Nihil Obstat from Bernadeane Carr, STL, and an Imprimatur from Bishop Robert H. Brom of San Diego, both dated March 2, 2004. The preface is by Father Constantine Belisarius, S.J. 640 pages.