Canonical Letter on the Lapsed

Hieromartyr Peter of Alexandria · c. 306 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Bishop of Alexandria (300–311); martyred under Maximinus. His Canonical Letter on the Lapsed during the Diocletian persecution is foundational for the early Church's discipline of repentance and reconciliation of the lapsed.

Contents

1. The Genuine Acts of Peter(1 chapter)
2. The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras(15 chapters)
3. Note by the American Editor(1 chapter)
4. Fragments from the Writings of Peter(9 chapters)
5. Elucidations(1 chapter)