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4. Symbolical Books

6. The Filioque Controversy
  1. The Encyclical Letter of Saint Photius (867 or 866)

    2. Together with the "The Epitomes of the Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit"

  2. The First Letter of Michael Cerularius to Peter of Antioch (1054)
  3. Council of Blachernae: Exposition of the Tomus of Faith Against Beccus Patriarch Gregory II of Cyprus (1285)
  4. The Encyclical Letter of Saint Mark of Ephesus (1440[39]-1441)
7. The Hesychast Controversy
  1. The Ninth Great Council (1341)
8. The Post Byzantine Era
  1. The [two] Confession of Faith by Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (1455[53]-1456)
  2. The Replies of Jeremias the Second to the Lutherans (1573-1581)
  3. The Confession of Faith by Metrophanes Kritopoulos (1625)
  4. Synods of Constantinople (1672 & 1691) - Responsio Dionysii & On the Eucharist
  5. The Confession of Dositheus (1672) ratified by the Decrees of the Synod of Jerusalem
  6. The Answers of the Orthodox Patriarchs to the Non-Jurors (1718, 1723)

    7. aka: The Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs on the Orthodox Faith, Patriarch Jeremiah III of Constantinople answer to the "Anglican Anomots" (1716-1725)

9. Russian Confessions
  1. The Orthodox Confession by Peter of Moghila (1642[43]), in its revised form ratified by the Council of Jassy (1662)
  2. The Orthodox Christian Catechism of Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow (1823)
10. The Unity of the Church and Ecumenism
  1. The Reply of the Orthodox Patriarchs to Pope Pius the IX (1848)
  2. The Reply of the Synod of Constantinople to the Papal Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII (1895) on Reunion
  3. The Encyclical Letters of the Athonite Elders on Ecumenism (1993-1999)