ST. LEO THE GREAT (NOV. 10TH)
St. Leo the Great, Patriarch and Pope of Rome By Bp. Joseph ( Archeparchate ) St. Leo (AD 400-461) was consecrated the Bishop of Rome in September of AD 440, and served until his death on today’s date in AD 461. He is principally known for his contributions in Trinitarian and Incarnational Theology, writing the “Tome of Leo”, which was meant as a rebuke to Monophysite theology that was sweeping the East, and sent it to the Robber Council of Ephesus in AD 449. While St. Leo’s doctrine was ignored by the followers of Eutyches and Monophysitism triumphed for a time in Byzantium, it became an important statement of theology that carried the day in AD 451 at the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon. “...Into folly do they fall who, when hindered by some obscurity from apprehending the truth, have recourse, not to the words of the Prophets, not to the letters of the Apostles, nor to the authority of the Gospels, but to themselves; and become teachers of error, just because they have n...
