The Emperors Arcadius and Honorius issue the law which threatens the Donatist bishops, presbyters and other clerics with exile. The law issued on 17 June 414, included in the Theodosian Code published in AD 438.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
XVI.5.54.1
Ea vero loca, in quibus dira superstitio nunc usque servata est, catholicae venerabili ecclesiae socientur, ita ut episcopi presbyteri omnesque antistites eorum et ministri spoliati omnibus facultatibus ad singulas quasque insulas adque provincias exulandi gratia dirigantur.
(ed. Mommsen 1905: 873)
XVI.5.54.1
Those places in which the dire superstition has been preserved until now shall surely be joined to the venerable Catholic Church, and thus their bishops and presbyters, that is, all their prelates and ministers shall likewise be despoiled of all their property and shall be sent into exile to separate inslands and provinces.
(trans. Pharr 1952: 460)
Discussion:
The fragment of the constitution issued to Julianus, the proconsul of Africa, on 17 June 414, is one of the laws enforcing the unification of the Donatist Church with the Catholic Church after the Conference of Carthage in 411.
Place of event:
Region
Latin North Africa
East
Italy north of Rome with Corsica and Sardinia
City
Constantinople
Ravenna
About the source:
Title: Codex Theodosianus, Code of Theodosius, Theodosian Code Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Theodosian Code is a compilation of the Roman legislation from the times of the Emperor Constantine to the times of Theodosius II. The work was begun in AD 427 and finished in autumn AD 437 when it was accepted for publication. It was promulgated in February 438 and came into effect from the beginning of AD 439.
Edition:
Theodor Mommsen and Paul Martin Meyer (eds.), Theodosiani libri XVI cum constitutionibus Sirmondianis et leges novellae ad Theodosianum pertinentes, 2 vols., Berlin 1905
Translation:
The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions, a translation with commentary, glossary, and bibliography by C. Pharr, Princeton 1952
N. Lenski, "Imperial Legislation and the Donatist Controversy: From Constantine to Honorius", in: R. Miles (ed.), The Donatist Schism: Controversy and Context, Liverpool 2016, 166-219.
Categories:
Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Donatist
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Public law - Secular
Relation with - Monarch and royal/imperial family
Administration of justice - Exile
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1519, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1519
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