Eulogius, the Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (A.D. 580-607), had in his many writings fought for the creed of Chalcedon but with so little success that in 611 St. John the Almsgiver found that the Monophysites held not only the valley of the Nile: even in the Greek city of ...
He knew that many practices in the Orthodox Church of his day did not correspond to the ancient canons. This, in his estimation, was a situation needing correction. He often calls attention to matters dear to the hearts of his fellow kollyvades. The appropriate time for serving the vesperal...