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The following is adapted from the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
JULIUS I, Saint (d. 352), Pope from 337. In the Arian struggle he was a strong supporter of orthodoxy and one of the chief influences leading to its ultimate triumph. He gave shelter to Marcellus of Ancyra at Rome after his condemnation at the Council of Constantinople (336), and later to Athanasius after his escape from Alexandria in 339. In 342–3 he convoked the Council of Sardica, which consolidated the W. against Arianism and pronounced Athanasius the rightful occupant of his see. Through the appellate jurisdiction allowed by can. 3 (Gk.) of the Council to Julius as Bishop of Rome, his name has secured notoriety in connection with the rise of the Papal claims. Two of Julius’ letters, which survive in Greek, are evidence of his remarkable statesmanship. His pontificate was marked by the building of two new churches in Rome, Saint Maria in Trastevere and the Basilica Julia (now the Church of the Twelve Apostles). Feast day, 12 Apr.
The two letters mentioned are preserved in Athanasius, Apologia c. Arianos, 21–35 and 52 f. Other (spurious) Epp. attributed to him are by Apollinarian writers; texts in H. Lietzmann, Apollinarius von Laodicea und seine Schule, 1 (1904), pp. 185–93, 193–203, 256–62, 283–6, 292 f., 307–10, 310–18, 318. Material on Julius collected in J. P. Migne, PL 8. 857–944, and Suppl. by A. Hamman, OFM, 1 (1958), cols. 191 f. C. Pietri, Roma Christiana: Recherches sur l’Église de Rome … de Miltiades à Sixte III (Bibliothèque des Ecoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 224; 1976), pp. 187–237. J. Barmby in DCB 3 (1882), pp. 526–32; M. Simonetti in Enciclopedia dei Papi, 1 (2000), pp. 334–40; J. Chapin in NCE (2nd edn.), 8 (2003), pp. 52–4, s.v.
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[From the Leter of Pope Julius: Ανέγνων τὰ γράμματα (21.2.1) contained in Athanasius’ Apologia contra Arianos, 35.5.1. to the Antiochenes, in the year 341] [Dz 57a [130] |
Athanasius’ Apologia contra Arianos, 35.5.1. |
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FOR if, indeed as you assert, some sin has risen among them, a judicial investigation ought to have been made according to the ecclesiastical canon, and not in this manner. |
35.5.1 εἰ γὰρ καὶ ὅλως͵ ὥς φατε͵ γέγονέ τι εἰς αὐτοὺς ἁμάρτημα͵ ἔδει κατὰ τὸν ἐκκλη σιαστικὸν κανόνα καὶ μὴ οὕτως γεγενῆσθαι τὴν κρίσιν͵ |
| Everyone should have written to us, in order that thus what was [decided] might be decided by all; | ἔδει γραφῆναι πᾶσιν ἡμῖν͵ ἵνα οὕτως παρὰ πάντων ὁρισθῇ τὸ δίκαιον. |
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for the bishops were the ones who suffered, and it was not the ordinary churches that were harassed, but which the apostles themselves governed in person. |
ἐπίσκοποι γὰρ ἦσαν οἱ πάσχοντες καὶ οὐχ αἱ τυχοῦσαι ἐκκλησίαι αἱ πάσχουσαι͵ ἀλλ΄ ὧν αὐτοὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι δι΄ ἑαυτῶν καθηγή 35.4 σαντο. |
| Yet why has nothing been written to us, especially regarding the Alexandrian church? | διὰ τί δὲ περὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐκκλησίας μάλιστα οὐκ ἐγράφετο ἡμῖν; |
| Or do you not know that it is the custom to write to us first, and that here what is just is decided? | ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε͵ ὅτι τοῦτο ἔθος ἦν͵ πρότερον γράφεσθαι ἡμῖν καὶ οὕτως ἔνθεν ὁρίζεσθαι τὰ δίκαια; |
| [...] | πράξαντες δὲ αὐτοὶ ὡς 35.5 ἠθέλησαν͵ λοιπὸν καὶ ἡμᾶς οὐ καταγνόντας βούλονται συμψήφους εἶναι. |
| Certainly if any suspicion of this nature did fall upon the bishop of that city, the fact should have been written to this church. | εἰ μὲν οὖν τι τοιοῦτον ἦν ὑποπτευθὲν εἰς τὸν ἐπίσκοπον τὸν ἐκεῖ͵ ἔδει πρὸς τὴν ἐνταῦθα ἐκκλησίαν γραφῆναι͵ νῦν δὲ οἱ ἡμᾶς μὴ πληροφορήσαντες͵ |
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