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Works Cyprian of Carthage (200-258) Epistulae (CCEL) The Epistles of Cyprian
Epistle LI.

1.

Cyprian to Antonianus his brother, greeting. I received your first letters, dearest brother, firmly maintaining the concord of the priestly college, and adhering to the Catholic Church, in which you intimated that you did not hold communion with Novatian, but followed my advice, and held one common agreement with Cornelius our co-bishop. 1 You wrote, moreover, for me to transmit a copy of those same letters to Cornelius our colleague, so that he might lay aside all anxiety, and know at once that you held communion with him, that is, with the Catholic Church. 2


  1. ["Our co-bishop,"--language which reflects our author's idea of Catholic communion. See his Treatise on Unity; also p. 329.] ↩

  2. [His idea is, that to be in communion with the whole Church, one must be in fellowship with his own lawful bishop.] ↩

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