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- ↑ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Three Chapters
- ↑ Migne, Patrologia Latina 67, pp.996-7.
- ↑ Africae, Pontianus (1844–1864). Patrologia Latina. Vol. 67. Jacques-Paul Migne. pp. 996–997.
- ↑ Michael Maas, Exegesis and Empire in the Early Byzantine Mediterranean (2003),p. 63.
- ↑ Spilman, Frances (2015). The Councils of the Catholic Church: Nicea to Now. pp. 84–86. ISBN 9781329553965.
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