Event Factoid: Appealing to Cyril's letter to Nestorius and the
example of Severus the
presbyter, Severus urged Stephen to accept
the ordination of Stephen because heretics cannot be expected to follow
canon-law.
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: 1.09, p: 45-46.