Views Concerning The Church and the Sacraments During the Second Period (300-750 A.D.): The Doctrine of the Church (14): The Papacy.

The North African bishops and councils in the beginning of the fifth century, with all traditional reverence for the apostolic see, repeatedly protested, in the spirit of Cyprian, against encroachments of Rome, and even prohibited all appeal in church controversies from their own to a transmarine or foreign tribunal, upon pain of excommunication. The North African bishops and councils in the beginning of the fifth century, with all traditional reverence for the apostolic see, repeatedly...