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Letter 2

POTRZEBNE ZDANIE WPROWADZENIA

1. Quantum presbyterorum et ex diversis monasteriis Domino servientium monachorum relatione patefactum est, ecclesias Domini rursus diabolus inquietat [...]

The description of the deposition of Timotheus Aelurus of Alexandria follows.

(ed. Thiel 1868: 177)

Letter 2

1. As it was revealed by the relation of many presbyters, and monks who serve God in various monasteries, the Churches of God are again disturbed by devil.

The description of the deposition of Timotheus Aelurus of Alexandria follows.

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

We do not know whether the clergy and the monks from the East travelled to Rome to complain to Simplicius, or did they only write to him. In the same year, Simplicius addressed his Letter 4 to the presbyters and archimandrites of Constantinople (ed. Thiel 1868: 183-186). Simplicius refers to information got from the presbyters and monks in his Letter 7 to Acacius (AD 477, ed. Thiel 1868: 189).

Place of event:

Region

Rome
East

City

Rome
Constantinople

About the source:

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

Simplicius was the bishop of Rome between AD 468 and 483.

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Edition:

Thiel A. ed., Epistulae Romanorum pontificum genuinae et quae ad eos scriptae sunt a S. Hilario usque ad Pelagium II, 1, Braunsberg 1868, 175-214.

Categories:

Writing activity - Correspondence

Travel and change of residence

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Conflict

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Education - Theological interest

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1953, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1953