Book II, Ch. 17 — Synodical Act of Damasus, Bishop of Rome, and of the Western Bishops, about the Council at Ariminum.

The condemnation of this formula by all the champions of the truth, and specially those of the West, is shewn by the letter which they wrote to the Illyrians . First of the signatories was Damasus, who obtained the presidency of the church of Rome after Liberius, and was adorned with many virtues . With him signed ninety bishops of Italy and Galatia , now called Gaul, who met together at Rome. I would have inserted their names but that I thought it superfluous. ------------------------ "The bishops assembled at Rome in sacred synod, Damasus and Valerianus