Letter 12: UONORII IMPERATOIUS to ARCADIUM AUGUSTUM.

Emperor Honorius to Emperor Arcadius. Honorius writes for the third time to his brother the emperor, requesting that a synod be assembled at Thessalonica and that Theophilus of Alexandria be ordered to present himself there. The letter survives in a bilingual form (Latin and Greek). It belongs to the campaign led by Innocent I to secure a fair hearing for John Chrysostom in the East, and represents the Western court's intervention in support of the deposed bishop of Constantinople.

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