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Canonical Epistle to Letoius

Epistula canonica ad Letoium · Gregory of Nyssa · c. 385-390 · canon law

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

The canonical letter on penance and the grades of penitents, edited separately as Gregorii Nysseni Opera III.5 ('pars 5. Epistula canonica', ed. E. Mühlenberg — HOLLIS contents of 'Opera dogmatica minora', https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gregory%20of%20Nyssa%20Epistula%20canonica&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS searches for 'Gregory of Nyssa canonical epistle Letoius' and 'Gregory of Nyssa Epistula canonica' return editions and French/German studies only, no English translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gregory%20of%20Nyssa%20Epistula%20canonica&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 the English Nyssa corpus in HOLLIS (first 100 of 1,079 relevance-sorted records) contains no canon-law volume (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gregory%20of%20Nyssa&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 It is absent from NPNF ser. 2 vol. 5 (https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf205/npnf205.toc.html).

Caveat recorded deliberately: English canon-law florilegia (e.g. the Pedalion/'Rudder' compilations of the Eastern canons) were not searched, so a short excerpt translation inside such a handbook cannot be excluded; no standalone or series translation was located. PG 45 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_045

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: Gregory of Nyssa — 1079 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Gregory of Nyssa
Meredith, Anthony · 1999 · eng
Meredith, Anthony. "Gregory of Nyssa." London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990079654620203941
Gregory of Nyssa : on the Hexaemeron : text, translation, and essays
· 2025 · eng, grc
"Gregory of Nyssa : on the Hexaemeron : text, translation, and essays." Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99161514251703941
Gregory of Nyssa. Contra Eunomium I : an English translation with supporting studies
Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394 · 2018 · eng, ger
Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394. "Gregory of Nyssa. Contra Eunomium I : an English translation with supporting studies." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153699825703941
Gregory of Nyssa : Homilies on the Our Father : an English translation with commentary and supporting studies : proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Paris, 4-7 September 2018)
· 2021 · eng, fre, ger, ita, lat
"Gregory of Nyssa : Homilies on the Our Father : an English translation with commentary and supporting studies : proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Paris, 4-7 September 2018)." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155800536403941
Gregory of Nyssa : Contra Eunomium II : an English version with supporting studies : proceedings of the 10th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Olomouc, September 15-18, 2004)
· 2007 · eng, fre, ger
"Gregory of Nyssa : Contra Eunomium II : an English version with supporting studies : proceedings of the 10th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Olomouc, September 15-18, 2004)." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990102223750203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Canonical Epistle to Letoius” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-nyssa-epistula-canonica