Synod of Sis - Council of Adana

Steven Avery

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We will start with the references, courtesy of Mike Ferrando:

I John 5 7 : pages 461; 436-437; 478

Epistola Gregorii Sisensis, Armenior. Patriarchae, ad Haytonem, patrem Leonis Regis Armeniae, coenobitam (1650)
p. 435
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSFVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA435
Armenian and Latin
Note the Chrysostom reference from Matthaei

Acta concilii Sisensis Armeni (1307 AD)
Iussu Gregorii Patriarchae, Et Leonis Armeniae Regis
Ad uniendam Armenam Ecclesiam cum Romana, generaliter coacti,
anno domini MCCCVII & Armeniorum MCCLVI.
p. 455
>>books.googlecom/books?id= ZSFVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA455#v= onepage&q&f=false

Acta concilii Adanensis Armeni (1320 AD)
Jussu Constantini patriarchae & Oscini Regis Armeniae celebrati propter unionem ecclesia Armenae cum Romana.
p. 474
>>books.google.com/books?id= ZSFVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA474#v= onepage&q&f=false

Conciliatio ecclesiae Armenae cum Romana., Clemente Galani
Author: Clemente Galani
Volume 1
Publisher: Typ. soc. congreg. de prop. fide, 1650
>>books.google.com/books?id= ZSFVAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_ navlinks_s

I John 5 7 : Armenian Council of Adana (1320 AD)

Adana, a diocese of Armenian rite in Asia Minor (Asiatic Turkey).
In medieval times Adana, deprived of a Greek bishop, had an Armenian one, subject to the Catholicos of Sis. The first of this line known to history is a certain Stephen, who distinguished himself in 1307 and 1316. Under him a great national Armenian council (the last of its kind), attended by the patriarch and the king, the clergy and the nobility, was held at Adana (1316).
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Diocese_of_Adana

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Acta Concilii Adanensis Armeni (1320 AD), Jussu Constantini Patriarchae & Oscini Regis Armeniae celebrati propter unionem ecclesiae Armenae cum Romana.
Tomus Vicesimus Quintus (Vol. 25)
[col 657D]

Quocirca magnus Apostolus ille Joannes in quadam ex catholicis suis epistolis ait: "Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in caelo, Pater, Verbum, & Spiritus sanctus, & hi tres unum sunt: & tres sunt qui testimonium dant in terra spiritus, aqua, & sanguis, & hi tres unum sunt." (Joan. epist. 1. c. 5.)

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Mansi, Gian Domenico, Louis Petit, and Joanne Baptista Martin. Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, cujus Joannes Dominicus Mansi et post ipsius mortem, florentius et venetianus editores, ab anno 1758 ad annum 1798, priores triginta unum tomos ediderunt, nunc autem continuata et... absoluluta. XXV, XXV. Parisiis: expensis H. Welter, 1782, 1903. vol. 25, col. 657D.
https://books.google.com/books?id=sAzjiq1M1z8C&pg=RA3-PT215
 
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The Lands of the Bible Visited and Described - Vol 2 (1847)
John Wilson
https://books.google.com/books?id=id07AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA585
Galanus - Roman and Armenian - Council of Adina 1314 after Synod of Sis -

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Synod of Sis (1650)
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSFVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA435

Porson
https://books.google.com/books?id=uNOLTFNl2_IC&pg=PA82
p. 82-90

James Townley (1821)
https://books.google.com/books?id=cF0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA505

Jacob Élisée Cellerier, (1785-1862)
http://data.bnf.fr/13164451/jacob_elisee_cellerier/

Essai d'une introduction critique au Nouveau Testament, ou Analyse raisonnée de l'ouvrage intitulé : "Einleitung in die Schriften des N. T."... par J. L. Hug (1823)
Jacob Élisée Cellerier,
https://books.google.com/books?id=iI-6KzS5okEC&pg=PA183
p. 183-186

John Scott Porter (1848)
https://books.google.com/books?id=QRIaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA359

Tregelles (1856)
http://books.google.com/books?id=HYFJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA312

Bibliotheca latina mediæ et infimæ aetatis, cum supplemento Christiani Schoettgenii jam a p. Joanne Dominico Mansi ... e mss. editisque codicibus correcta illustrata aucta, post editionem patavinam an. 1754. nune denuo emendata et aucta, indicibus locupletata: Accedunt in fine vetera plura monumenta tum a Fabricio olim tradita, cum a el. Mansio primo adiecta ... (1858)
https://books.google.com/books?id=2kMaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95

Charles Forster
https://books.google.com/books?id=yXIsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA189
p. 189-190

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Is Forster right in defending Armenian mss. supporting the verse, even before the Synod of Sis?

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Steven Avery

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Witness of God is Greater

Armenian Councils : Sisensis (1307 AD) & Adanensis (1320 AD)

• Gregory VII Anavardzetzi convoked the synod of Sis (1307). More than 30 bishops took part in it, and
their respectful sentiments towards the See of Rome was manifest. Pope Bonifatius VIII approved the
orthodox faith of Catholicos Gregory Anavardzetzi on October 26, 1298. The position of this synod was
approved by his successor Constantine III (1307-1321) at the synod of Adana which took place in 1316.
(fn. 7. Sacra Congregazione per Le Chiese Orientali, Codificazione Canonica Orientale, Fonti: Serie III, vol. T. I
206-207.) (The Armenian Church. St. Gregory Armenian Catholic Church. <www.stgregoryarmenian.org/thearmenian-
church/>)

• After the death of Gregory of Anavarza, King Leo convened a Council in Sis, in 1307, which is known in
history as the seventh Council of Sis. 43 bishops and princes from Cilicia participated in this Council.
In order to bring an end to the disputes King Oshin convened a Council in Adana, in 1316. 13 bishops, 7
archimandrites and 10 princes took part in it. In this Council the objections against the decisions of the Council
of Sis were rejected as being contrary to the truth. The decisions of the Council of Sis were confirmed
once again. ...The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia fell in 1375. The country was ruined and a mass migration
began. The Patriarchal See became a toy in the hands of the foreigners. In such political conditions the idea of
returning the Patriarchal See to Armenia gained favour in Greater Armenia. In 1441 the See of the Supreme
Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians was again relocated at Holy Etchmiadzin. (Sister Churches of The
Armenian Church. Holy Virgin Mary and Shoghagat Armenian Church.
<www.bellevillearmenianchurch.org/orig/origins9.php>)
Concilium Sisense Armenum (1307)

HIT:
● And from the first of those of John: "And there are Three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one. And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit and the water and the blood. And these three are one."

○ Latin: Et primo ex illo Joannis: "Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in caelo, Pater, Verbum, &
Spiritus Sanctus : & hi tres unum sunt :
& tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in terra,
spiritus, aqua, & sanguis; & hi tres unum sunt." (Galano, Conciliatio Ecclesiae Armenae
Cum Romana Ex Ipsis Armenorum Patrum, Council of Eccles. Arm. cum Rom. Cap. XXVIII,
1661, vol 1, p. 461)
Concilium Adanense Armenum (1316 AD)

HIT:
● Wherefore that great Apostle John says in one of his epistles: "And there are Three who give
testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one. And
there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit and the water and the blood. And these
three are one."

○ Latin: Quocirca magnus Apostolus ille Joannes in quadam ex catholicis suis epistolis ait: "Tres
sunt, qui testimonium dant in caelo, Pater, Verbum, & Spiritus sanctus, & hi tres unum
sunt:
& tres sunt qui testimonium dant in terra spiritus, aqua, & sanguis, & hi tres unum
sunt." (Joan. epist. 1. c. 5.) (Galano, Conciliatio Ecclesiae Armenae Cum Romana Ex Ipsis
Armenorum Patrum, Council of Eccles. Arm. cum Rom. Cap. XXIX, 1661, vol 1, p. 478)

Historia doctrinae catholicae inter Armenos (1878)
by A. Balgy/A. Palchean
https://archive.org/details/HistoriaDoctrinaeCatholicaeInterArme/page/n321/mode/2up
Sacrosancta Concilia Ad Regiam Editionem Exacta: Ab Anno MCCXLIII. ad annum MCCCX. (1731)
https://books.google.com/books?id=o4pEAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1379
Some more in Google books
https://www.google.com/search?clien...ex+illo+Joannis:+"Tres+sunt,+qui+testimonium"

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Epistle of Gregory to Haitho (1270) - According to Galanus in 1690?

Wikipedia seems to lack Sis and Adana Councils.

Marsh questions the 1270 text especially, and maybe Sis as wel.

Porter
https://books.google.com/books?id=QRIaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA358

He (Hug) says that Gregory, Bishop of Sis, and Patriarch of Armenia, addressed a letter to King Haitho, advising him to call a council of the National Church in order to effect a union with Rome, which letter is extant in the Great Collection of

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Eclectic Review
http://books.google.com/books?id=7Ro3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156
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Hug
http://books.google.com/books?id=zZQvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA231
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Marsh
https://books.google.com/books?id=T-liAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8
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Bleek
https://books.google.com/books?id=X4kXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA352
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Steven Avery

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I'm looking for a manuscript of the Acts of the Council of Sis; mI found this: it seems that the Armenians were trying to adapt to Roman standards; it's therefore not surprising that they should include the comma

Letter of Esayi vardabet (the Netchetzi), being an answer to the Encyclical letter drawn up by the catholicos, Constantin II, and put in circulation later, on the decision of the general council of Sis in 1307, in which the Armenians were advised to suppress some of their rites and customs (in order to please Rome).
https://armenian.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/...sVY_q9ORf9lX2DjwqO_Y1MnCyHNCRiJGX14pSu7jH367s

Go to p. 436, the second page in this section
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSFVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA435

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yes, I'm looking at that now. I'm trying to find the manuscript from which Galano edited this to make sure that he transcribed it faithfully
 
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