The Confession of the Catholic Faith (the Tome of Damasus)

Contents

1. 0Preface: the Roman council adds anathemas concerning the Holy Spirit, because some had begun to say that the Spirit was made through the Son.
2. 1Anathema on those who do not confess the Holy Spirit to be of one power and substance with the Father and the Son.
3. 2Anathema on the Sabellians, who identify the Father with the Son.
4. 3Anathema on Arius and Eunomius, who call the Son and the Spirit creatures.
5. 4Anathema on the Macedonians, who are Arians under another name.
6. 5Anathema on Photinus, who holds that Christ exists only from Mary.
7. 6Anathema on those who teach two Sons, one eternal and one born of the Virgin.
8. 7Anathema on those who say the Word took the place of a human rational soul in Christ (the Apollinarian view).
9. 8Anathema on those who make the Word an expansion or contraction of the Father, without real substance and destined to end.
10. 9Bishops who move from one see to another are out of communion until they return; if a successor has been ordained, the deserter lacks priestly rank until that successor dies.
11. 10Anathema on whoever denies that the Son and the Spirit always exist.
12. 11Anathema on whoever denies that the Son is born of the Father's divine substance.
13. 12Anathema on whoever denies that the Son is God, almighty, all-knowing, and equal to the Father.
14. 13Anathema on whoever denies that the incarnate Son was also in heaven with the Father.
15. 14Anathema on whoever says that the divinity of the Son, and not his flesh with its soul, suffered the pain of the cross.
16. 15Anathema on whoever denies that Christ sits at the Father's right hand in the flesh he assumed and will come in it to judge.
17. 16Anathema on whoever denies that the Holy Spirit is truly from the Father and true God.
18. 17Anathema on whoever denies that the Spirit is almighty, all-knowing, and everywhere present.
19. 18Anathema on whoever calls the Spirit a creature or made through the Son.
20. 19Anathema on whoever denies that the Father made all things through the Son and the Spirit.
21. 20Anathema on whoever denies the one divinity, power, glory, kingdom, and will of the three.
22. 21Anathema on whoever denies three true and equal persons who together create, sustain, judge, and save.
23. 22Anathema on whoever denies that the Spirit is to be worshipped by all creation like the Father and the Son.
24. 23Whoever is orthodox about the Father and Son but not about the Spirit is a heretic.
25. 24Anathema on whoever calls the three "gods" rather than one God, or calls the Father alone God; Christians are baptized into the one divinity of Father, Son, and Spirit.