Not received by the Coptic Orthodox ChurchNot received by the Coptic Orthodox Church
- Convened by
- Emperor Marcian
- Who came
- the largest council of the age
What it answered
It met over Eutyches, and deposed Pope Dioscorus of Alexandria
Where we stand
The Coptic Orthodox Church does not receive it. What follows is Fr. Malaty's own account of why, in his words rather than ours.
In the Church’s own words
The Church of Alexandria considered as central the Christological mia physis formula of St. Cyril: "one nature of God the Word the Incarnate."
Both sides also agree in rejecting the teaching which confuses the human nature in Christ with the divine nature so that the former is absorbed in the latter and thus ceases to exist
Consequently, we reject both the Nestorian and the Eutychian heresies
Who was there
St. Dioscorusdeposedsaint
25th of Alexandria: 444
Pope Dioscorus has also been branded by pro- Chalcedonians for the death of the patriarch Flavian
St. Timothy Aeluruswrote againstsaint
26th Of Alexandria 457-477
against the Synod of Chalcedon
Theodoret of Cyrusacquittedcondemned
acquitted at the Council of Chalcedon 451
Basil of Seleuciaturnedwriter
d. ca. 468
He first voted against the Alexandrians at the Synod of Constantinople in 448, at the Synod of Ephesus in 449 he declared in favor of Eutyches