in Ecclesiastical History, a confession of faith, in the form of an edict, published in 639 by the Emperor Heraclius, with a view to allay the troubles occasioned by the Eutychian heresy in the Eastern Church. He revoked it, however, on being informed that Pope Severinus had condemned it as favouring the Monothelites; declaring at the same time that Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, was its author.