and as the members of synod could not read Latin in detail, they were limited in how they could question him and his writings. Pelagius defended himself by disavowing the doctrines of Caelestius and was not convicted.

Both Jerome and Augustine were unhappy with the verdict, with Jerome calling it, "the wretched Synod of Diospolis". Pope Innocent stated that "he could not bring himself to refuse either blame or praise of those bishops." Fragments of the synod's proceedings are preserved in Augustine's work On the Proceedings of Pelagius.