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Letter 10 (= Letter 14 in Collectio Thessalonicensis)

Ergo vobiscum quod ad regularum canonumque custodiam proficere novimus, pro sollicitudine nostra conferimus, sequestre filio nostro Arthemio presbytero, cuius nobis efficaciam in agendo pariter et moderationem placuisse [...]

(ed. Silva Tarouca 1937: 41)

Letter 10 (= Letter 14 in Collectio Thessalonicensis)

We knew, as well as you did, what serves the keeping of the rules and canons and we convey our sollicitude through the agency of our son Presbyter Arthemius, whose efficacy and moderation have both pleased us [...].

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

In some of the manuscripts "sequestre" reads as "sequestro". Arthemius was most probably the envoy of the Illyrian bishops to Rome.

Place of event:

Region

Rome
Danubian provinces and Illyricum

About the source:

Author: Sixtus III
Title: Epistulae, Letters
Origin: Rome (Rome)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Sixtus (Xistus) III was the bishop of Rome between AD 432 and 440.

Edition:

C. Silva-Tarouca ed., Collectio Thessalonicensis : epistularum Romanorum Pontificum ad vicarios per Illyricum aliosque episcopo, Textus et Documenta. Series Theologica 23, Roma 1937, 36-43

Bibliography:

J.M. Kötter, "Autonomie der illyrischen Kirche? Die Sixtus-Briefe der Collectio Thessalonicensis und der Streit um das kirchliche Illyricum.”, Millennium 9 (2012), 163–186.

Categories:

Travel and change of residence

PR845.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR845.

Ecclesiastical administration - Ecclesiastical envoy

PR845.

Reverenced by

PR845.

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

PR845.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1858, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1858