UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



Ruflla. The patriarch of Conftantinople bean? 

 the title of Panagiotita fou, or his all-bolinefs. 

 There are in this church archimandrins or abbies, 

 archbifhops, biihops, fufTragans, bapas or curates, 

 and the religious named caloyers, who wear a 

 black habit, nearly the fame as that of the Be- 

 nediftines. Ecclefiaftic hiftory informs us what 

 are the particular circtimftances that have at- 

 tended the ancient church ; the fuccefilorr of its 

 patriarchs ; the councils h has held ; and what 

 are its dogmas, its rites and ceremonies. 



XI. The Hiftory of the Cometh, during the 

 eighteen centuries of the univerfal Chriftian 

 church. Thefe councils have been either oecu- 

 menical, in which all Christianity is interrefted < 

 or national, or provincial, or diocefian ; and the 

 conciliabules, held by fchifmatic ecclefiaftics. 

 They call the firft council that aflembly of the 

 apoftles held in Jeruialem, where Jofeph, Bar- 

 fabas and Matthias, were propofed to fill the 

 place of Judas the traitor, when the lot fell on 

 Matthias. There have been fmce that time many 

 of thefe forts of aflemblies of bifhops and prin- 

 cipal ecclefiaftics, which may be compared to 

 provincial councils, but have never borne that 

 title. The firft general council was held at 

 Nice, a city of Bithynia, in Afia Minor, in the 

 year 325. The oecumenical councils which have 

 fucceeded that, are 



2. That of Constantinople, held in the year 

 381. 



3. That 



