Primary source · Greek (with Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian versions)
The Subscription Lists of the Council of Nicaea
The 318 Fathers (conciliar record) · AD 325
What this text is
The signature rolls of the first ecumenical council — the contemporary documentary record that attests bishops otherwise nearly unknown: Marcus of Calabria, Nicasius of Die, Theophilus of the Goths, Aristaces of Armenia.
Public-domain translations
Working translation (of representative list entries)
Of Italy: Marcus of Calabria. Of Gaul: Nicasius of Die. Of the Goths: Theophilus. Of Greater Armenia: Aristakes. — among the 318 fathers subscribing the faith set forth at Nicaea.
Manuscript witnesses
Conciliar collections (Greek, Latin, Syriac lists)
5th c. onwardNo autograph roll survives; the lists come down in the canonical collections, differing in order and orthography but stable in core.
Gelzer–Hilgenfeld–Cuntz, Patrum Nicaenorum nomina
1898The comparative edition of all the versions of the list.
Provenance
Nicaea, Bithynia; transmitted in the conciliar collections of every ancient church
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Patrum Nicaenorum nominaH. Gelzer, H. Hilgenfeld, O. Cuntz, 1898The standard comparative edition of the subscription lists.
- The Council of Nicaea and its legacyLewis Ayres (Nicaea and its Legacy), 2004Standard modern account of the council and its documents.