Roman Letters

Cornelius, on Refusal to Receive Novatian's Ordination & Cyprian of Carthage

9 surviving letters between Cornelius, on Refusal to Receive Novatian's Ordination and Cyprian of Carthage, spanning c. 252–254.

Cyprian of Carthagec. 252

Novatian's messengers arrived here, dear brother — Maximus the presbyter, Augendus the deacon, and two others,...

cyprian carthage, Letter 40
Cyprian of Carthagec. 252

As is fitting for servants of God and for faithful and peaceable priests, dear brother, we recently sent our...

cyprian carthage, Letter 41
Cyprian of Carthagec. 253

I have read the letter you sent by the presbyter Primitivus, dear brother, and I noticed that you were troubled by...

cyprian carthage, Letter 44
Cornelius, on Refusal to Receive Novatian's Ordinationc. 253

The anxiety and grief we carried for those confessors — circumvented and nearly deceived into separation from the...

cyprian carthage, Letter 45
Cyprian of Carthagec. 253

I will say openly that I have given and continue to give the greatest thanks — without ceasing — to God the Father...

cyprian carthage, Letter 46
Cornelius, on Refusal to Receive Novatian's Ordinationc. 253

So that nothing might be lacking to the eventual punishment of this wretched man — cast down by the power of God,...

cyprian carthage, Letter 47
Cyprian of Carthagec. 253

You acted with both care and love, dear brother, in sending us Nicephorus the acolyte in such haste.

cyprian carthage, Letter 48
Cyprian of Carthagec. 254

From Cyprian, Liberalis, Caldonius, Nicomedes, Caecilius, Junius, Marrutius, Felix, Successus, Faustinus,...

cyprian carthage, Letter 53
Cyprian of Carthagec. 254

I read your letter, dearest brother — full of fraternal love, church discipline, and a bishop's rightful severity.

cyprian carthage, Letter 54