Event Factoid: Though Severus had initiallly held to a strict interpretation
of the Church's ordination practices, the poverty and necessity of the
Church forced him to change his practices.
Sources:
Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac
Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part I: Letters I.1-II.3, vol. 2.1 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1903), part: 1.17, p: 63-65.