St. Athanasius: "Thus believes the Catholic Church"

“WITHOUT prefixing Consulate, month, and day, the Fathers wrote concerning Easter, 'It seemed good as follows,’ for it did then seem good that there should be a general compliance; but about the faith they wrote not, ‘It seemed good,’ but, ‘Thus believes the Catholic Church’; and thereupon they confessed how they believed, in order to show that their own sentiments were not novel, but Apostolic; and what they wrote down was no discovery of theirs, but is the same as was taught by the Apostles.”

~St. Athanasius: Letter on the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia.
(Bishop of Alexandria, born c. 296; died 2 May, 373.)