4 surviving letters between Emperor Theodosius I and Pope Leo the Great, spanning 443-448 AD.
He notifies the appointment of his representatives at the Council of Ephesus To Cæsar Theodosius, the most religious and devout Augustus Leo pope of the CatholicChurch of the city of Rome. How much God's providence vouchsafes to consult for the interests of men is shown by your merciful care which, incited by God's Spirit, is unwilling that ther...
Unity of Faith is essential but the point at issue hardly required a general council, it is so clear Leo to Theodosius Augustus. On receiving your clemency's letter, I perceived that the universal Church has much cause for joy, that you will have the Christian Faith, whereby the Divine Trinity is honoured and worshipped, to be different or out o...
When on our very arrival in the ancient city, we were engaged in paying our devotion to the most blessed Apostle Peter, at the martyr's very altar, the most reverend Bishop Leo waiting behind awhile after the service uttered laments over the Catholic Faith to us, and taking to witness the chief of the Apostles himself likewise, whom we had just ...
Leo, the bishop, to Theodosius ever Augustus. I. He suspends his opinion on the appointment of Anatolius till he has made open confession of the Catholic Faith.