Canon 36 Constantinople's rank and the order of the thrones

Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Τρούλλῳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Πενθέκτης Συνόδου

The Council in Trullo · Constantinople, 691 to 692 · convened by the emperor Justinian II · The Quinisext Council (Trullo, 692) on the map

Renewing what was legislated by the one hundred and fifty holy Fathers who assembled in this God-guarded and imperial city, and by the six hundred and thirty who were gathered in Chalcedon, we decree that the throne of Constantinople shall enjoy equal privileges with the throne of Elder Rome, and in ecclesiastical matters be magnified as that one is, being second after it; after which let the throne of the great city of Alexandria be numbered, then that of Antioch, and after this, that of the city of Jerusalem.

Ἀνανεούμενοι τὰ παρὰ τῶν ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα ἁγίων Πατέρων, τῶν ἐν τῇ θεοφυλάκτῳ ταύτῃ καὶ βασιλίδι πόλει συνελθόντων, καὶ τῶν ἑξακοσίων τριάκοντα, τῶν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι συναθροισθέντων νομοθετηθέντα, ὁρίζομεν, ὥστε τὸν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως θρόνον τῶν ἴσων ἀπολαύειν πρεσβείων τοῦ τῆς πρεσβυτέρας Ῥώμης θρόνου, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐκκλησιαστικοῖς, ὡς ἐκεῖνον, μεγαλύνεσθαι πράγμασι, δεύτερον μετ᾿ ἐκεῖνον ὑπάρχοντα, μεθ᾿ ὃν τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων μεγαλοπόλεως ἀριθμείσθω θρόνος, εἶτα ὁ Ἀντιοχείας, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον, ὁ τῆς Ἱεροσολυμιτῶν πόλεως.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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