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Second and Third Letters to Pope Celestine

Written in 430, in Constantinopolis (now Istanbul, Turkey). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Two letters to the bishop of Rome about the Pelagians at Constantinople and the quarrel over the word Theotokos.

Letter · first written in Greek

The Greek is lost; the letters survive in an old Latin version.

Not yet on the site. An English translation of this work exists, but we are not yet sure that it is in the public domain, or its text is not yet made ready. So it is not shown.

How we know the date and place

Date written probable

Translator M. DelCogliano (2005, tertullian.org): the second letter is from early 430 and the third from later in 430; F. Loofs, Nestoriana (1905)

Place written sure

Nestorius was bishop there, and the letters speak of events in the city; site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/520998