For all canonists hold that in matters of faith the council is superior to the Pope, and that in case of difference the council's verdict must be preferred to that of the Pope.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
While this Table is not published in the American Prayer Book, it is regarded by many American canonists as the law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
"The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia"
William James Miller
On these, no doubt, good canonists will debate at some future day, in order to shame the court of Rome, by pointing out its absurdities and blunders; and certainly the respect which catholics owe to the Holy See ought not to prevent then from resisting the pretensions of the Pope.
"Paris As It Was and As It Is"
Francis W. Blagdon