Il concilio ‘residente’ di Costantinopoli all’attenzione del legislatore tardoantico

In late antiquity a consuetudo was consolidated consisting of the frequent meeting around the archbishop of Constantinople, in the form of a council, of the various bishops casually present in the capital, the so-called !"#$%&'() (*"&#&+ (resident/permanent synod) to which the ecclesiae of the East recognized great authority and a multiplicity of functions (especially jurisdictional ones). Taking into account the importance that this meeting of bishops still has today, the essay first ascertains the vagueness with which it is testified by late antique ecclesiastical sources, and then investigates the way in which the legislator of the fifth and sixth centuries identified, in line with the ecclesial vision, the very ‘fluid’ formal specificity of this singular institution.