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Pope Celestine I orders not to make the bishops directly from laymen. Letter 5 of Pope Celestine I, "Nulli sacerdotum", Rome, AD 429.
Letter 5
 
2. The entire paragraph emphasises that laymen should not be promoted directly to episcopate.
 
(ed. Coustant 1846: 436-437; summary by S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

The letter was addressed to the bishops of Apulia and Calabria.

Place of event:

Region
  • Rome
  • Italy south of Rome and Sicily

About the source:

Author: Celestine I
Title: Letters, Epistulae
Origin: Rome (Rome)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Celestine I was the bishop of Rome between AD 422 and 432.
Edition:
P. Coustant ed., S. Coelestini I Papae Epistolae et Decreta, Patrologia Latina 50, Paris 1846, 417-558.
 

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Further ecclesiastical career - Bishop
    Impediments or requisits for the office - Ecclesiastical career
      Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1826, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1826
      Record by: Stanisław Adamiak
      last edited: 2018-02-01 18:15:39
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