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Do not fill this in! == Bibliography == === Primary sources === Note: NPNF2 = {{citation |editor1-last=Schaff |editor1-first=Philip |editor-link1=Philip Schaff |editor2-last=Wace |editor2-first=Henry |title=Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers |url=http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html |series=Second Series |publisher= Christian Classics Ethereal Library |ref=none}}, see also [[Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers]] * {{citation|title=Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.html|series=NPNF2|volume=1|access-date=2014-02-24}} ** {{citation|author=Anatolius of Laodicea|author-link=Anatolius of Laodicea|title=The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius|chapter-url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.xii.xxxiii.html|chapter=''Paschal Canons'' quoted by Eusebius|ref={{harvid|Anatolius}}}} ** {{citation|author=Eusebius Pamphilius|author-link=Eusebius|title=The Life of Constantine [Vita Constantini].|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iv.vi.html|ref={{harvid|Vita Constantini}}}} * {{citation|title=Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.html|series=NPNF2|volume=2|ref={{harvid|Socrates}}}} ** {{citation|author=Socrates of Constantinople|author-link=Socrates of Constantinople|title=The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.ii.html|access-date=2014-02-24}} ** {{citation|author=Sozomen|author-link=Sozomen|title=The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.iii.html}} * {{citation|title=Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, and Rufinus: Historical Writings|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.iii.html|series=NPNF2|volume=3|access-date=2014-02-24}} ** {{citation|author=Constantine the Great|author-link=Constantine the Great|title=The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret|chapter-url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.iv.viii.i.x.html|chapter=''Constantinus Augustus to the Churches'' quoted by Theodoret|access-date=2014-02-24}} ** {{citation|author=Eustathius of Antioch|author-link=Eustathius of Antioch|title=The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret|chapter-url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203/Page_45.html|chapter=''A Letter to the African Bishops'' quoted by Theodoret|access-date=2014-02-24}} ** {{citation|author=Theodoret of Cyrus|author-link=Theodoret of Cyrus|title=The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.iv.viii.html|ref={{harvid|Theodoret}}}} * {{citation|title=Athanasius: Select Works and Letters|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.html|series=NPNF2|volume=4|access-date=2014-02-24}} ** {{citation|author=Athanasius of Alexandria|author-link=Athanasius of Alexandria|title=De Decretis|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.xiv.ii.html|trans-title=Defence of the Nicene Definition|access-date=2014-02-24}} ** {{citation|author=Athanasius of Alexandria|author-link=Athanasius of Alexandria|title=Ad Afros Epistola Synodica|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.xxiv.html|trans-title=Synodal Letter to the Bishops of Africa|ref={{harvid|Ad Afros Epistola Synodica}}}} ** {{citation|author=Eusebius Pamphilus|author-link=Eusebius Pamphilus|title=Letter of Eusebius of Cæsarea to the people of his Diocese|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.ix.ii.html|access-date=2014-02-24}} * {{citation|title=Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf206|series=NPNF2|volume=6|access-date=2014-02-24}} ** {{citation|author=Jerome|author-link=Jerome|title=Prefaces to the Books of Tobit and Judith|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf206.vii.iii.xx.html|ref={{harvid|Preface to Tobit and Judith}}}} * {{citation|title=The Seven Ecumenical 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