Summary of the letter of a council in Bithynia

Reference numbers	Urk. 5 Doc. 3
Incipit	[ὀρθῶς δοξάζουσι κοινωνῆσαι]
Date	c. 320
Ancient source	Sozomen, Church History 1.15.10
	J. Bidez and G.C. Hansen, Sozomenus. Kirchengeschichte, GCS 50 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1960)

Having concocted a council in Bithynia, they wrote to all the bishops, instructing them to fellowship with the Arian group as having proper beliefs, and to pressure Alexander to fellowship with them as well.

Translation from NPNF²vol. 2, p. 252, adapted by GLT

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