I can prove the same thing not only through individual Fathers, but also collectively through synods. The Nicene Synod, the first ecumenical synod and, so to speak, the chief of the universal councils, in the fuller canons which, from among our men, Pisanus and Turrianus published following Arabic exemplars, decreed as follows in the thirty-first canon, which concerns receiving those who return from heresy:
“And after the bishop or priest, in whose hands the matter is, has done these things, he ought to anoint him with the prayer of chrism, and three times to sign him with the sign of the cross, anointing and praying over him the prayer of Dionysius the Areopagite.”
Therefore our author had established some formula of prayer, certainly. For it is extant in the last chapter of On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, page 222 and following; you will find it there.
In the sixth universal synod, which was the third of Constantinople, in the time of Pope Agatho and the Emperor Constantine IV, in the year 678, these works are received as Areopagitic. For in the eighth action, page 279, it is read:
“Likewise another testimony was reported from the same little codex, of Saint Dionysius, Bishop of Athens and Martyr, from the book Of the Divine Names; and the text of the testimony, similarly collated, contained as follows: ‘But the most benign operation of God toward us is distinct, in that, according to us and from us, the Word which is above substance was wholly and truly made human, and did and suffered the principal and approved things, insofar as they belong to his human divine operation. For in these the Father and the Spirit in no way share, unless someone should say, according to the most benign mercy and will,’ which things were cut off from the same testimony by the same persons, ‘and through every most sublime and ineffable operation of God, which the immutable one performed, having been made according to us, since he is God and the Word of God.’”
It cites the passage from chapter 2, page 266.
Do you want something also from our own Decrees of Gratian, in which you are wrongly pleased with yourselves? Read chapter 6, which begins “Omnis,” distinction 38. But lest you become nauseated, know that the same thing is found in the second ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which was the seventh universal council. There the essence of our hierarchy is handed down as placed in the oracles delivered by God, that is, in the true knowledge and understanding of divine things, “as that great Dionysius says.” For that canon is conceived thus:
“For the essence of the hierarchy according to us is the oracles handed down by God, that is, the true knowledge of the divine Scriptures, as the great Dionysius declared.”
You have it today in chapter 1 of On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, page 108, except that today “according to us” is read in place of a slightly different form, with the same sense and an easy change.