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The Arian clergy and Gothic lay leaders profess the Nicene creed at the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589).
The Arian bishops, presbyters and deacons along with lay nobles who represent all the Goths say anathemas against the Arian religion and profess the Nicene creed. They sign on the written acts attesting their conversion.
 
(ed. Martinez Diez, Rodriguez 1992: 75-99)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Toledo

About the source:

Title: Third Council of Toledo (589), Concilium III Toletanum, III Concilium Toletanum a. 589
Origin: Toledo (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Third Council of Toledo in 589 is a pivotal event that changed the religious allegiance of the Visigothic kingdom. The ruling elites of the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse (418-507), and later in the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula adhered to the Arian (Homoian) Christianity, whereas the Roman population were dominantly Catholic (though the frontiers between the denominations were not impenetrable, as we know Goths who converted to the Nicene Christianity and Romans who were Homoian). In 587 King Reccared converted to Catholicism. This was followed by the decision to eliminate the religious division in the kingdom. The Third Council of Toledo in 589 assembled in May to confirm the conversion of all the Gothic leaders and Arian clergy to the Catholicism.
The literature on the conversion of the Visigoths and the Third Council in Toledo is voluminous - only a few seminal books and papers are signalised in the bibliography section below.
Edition:
G. Martínez Díez, F. Rodríguez eds., La colección canónica Hispana, Monumenta Hispaniae sacra. Serie canónica 5, Madrid 1992.
J. Vives ed., Concilios visigóticos e hispano-romanos, Barcelona-Madrid 1963.
 
Bibliography:
El Concilio III de Toledo. XIV Centenario, ed. R. Gonzalvez, Toledo 1991.
R. Collins, Visigothic Spain, 409-711, Oxford, OX, UK; Malden, MA, USA 2004.
J.N. Hillgarth, "La conversión de los Visigodos. Notas criticas", Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia 34/1 (1961), 21-46.
M. Koch, Ethnische Identität im Entstehungsprozess des spanischen Westgotenreiches, Berlin; New York 2012.
E.A. Thompson, "The Conversion of the Visigoths to Catholicism", Nottingham Medieval Studies 4 (1960), 4-35.
 

Categories:

Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Arian
    Change of denomination
      Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
        Described by a title - Clericus
          Ecclesiastical administration - Participation in councils and ecclesiastical courts
            Relation with - Monarch and royal/imperial family
              Relation with - Noble
                Writing activity
                  Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER344, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=344
                  Record by: Marta Szada
                  last edited: 2018-06-12 21:56:51
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