The title Ecumenical was given for the first time to the Pope at the Council of Chalcedon, not by the fathers of this council, but by some of those who were offended [by Dioscoros], in their petition to him. This council not only did not recognize this title, but it kept completely silent about it. As the demand of Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem, proposed to this Council, that there is an ancient custom for the Patriarch of Antioch to sue at Jerusalem, was left by him without satisfaction: so he did not confirm the announcement of the Alexandrians that the Pope is the Archbishop and Patriarch of the Ecumene. Therefore, this council in its message to the Pope called him only the Archbishop of Rome, but no more. As for the Patriarch of Constantinople, the name “Ecumenical” was first given to him at the council that was under [Patriarch] John the Cappadocian, not by random people who called the Pope that way, but by the fathers sent from the apostolic sees of Antioch and Jerusalem, and then the synod in Constantinople.
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