Synodal letter

Epistula synodalis · Amphilochius of Iconium · c. 390 · letter

Greek · domain: cappadocian · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Printed among Amphilochius's works at the end of the homily corpus; SC 553 lists it in French as 'Épître synodale' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Sources%20chretiennes%20Amphiloque&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English version appears in HOLLIS under 'Amphilochius' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Amphilochius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and the Cappadocian NPNF volumes carry no Amphilochius (https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf208/npnf208.toc.html, https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf207/npnf207.toc.html).

A short ecclesiastical letter on the bishop's own doctrinal position; SC 553 (French) is the only translation traced. PG 39 cited at volume level (The archive.org item is cited at volume level: it is the Migne volume for this author (PG volume-to-author mapping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrologia_Graeca), but the work's exact place in the volume was not verified page by page.).

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1863) patrologiae_cursus_completus_gr_vol_039

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Amphilochius of Iconium Synodal letter — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
Letters 51-110 Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444 · 2007, c1987 · eng	Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444. "Letters 51-110." Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2007, c1987. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155557928103941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Synodal letter” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-amphilochius-synodal-letter