Ecumenical cathedrals of the 4th and 5th centuries. 3rd edition, corrected. Lebedev A.P.

Alexey Petrovich Lebedev (1845–1908) - an outstanding Russian historian of the Church, the author of works mainly on the history of the Byzantine Church, Honored Professor of the Imperial Moscow Theological Academy and professor of Moscow University. His work "Ecumenical cathedrals of the VI, VII and VIII centuries." It is devoted to the history of the Ecumenical Church with the heresies of monophysitism, monofelism and iconocraticism, the temporary prosperity of which could not overcome the cathedral mind of the Church under the leadership of the Holy Spirit and the final celebration of Orthodoxy.

bright and vividly, the involvement of a wide material of sources, with The use of achievements to the modern author of church-historical science describes the cathedral acts and fate of the main ascetics of Orthodoxy-Rev. Maxim the Confessor, St. Martin, Pope, Rev. Feodora Studit and many others.

compared to the first edition of 2004, significant editorial and bibliographic corrections are made.

for all those interested in the history of the ancient Church.