On Meetings of Bishops (This should be shared and Tweeted far and wide!)

If I should write the truth, I believe that I ought to flee all meetings of bishops, because I have never seen any happy or satisfactory outcome from any council, nor one that has deterred evils more than it has occasioned their acceptance and growth.

(St Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 131 from 382 AD; cf. PG )

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