Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 428
Augustine, bishop of Hippo, sends a presbyter to Celer, a rich landowner near Hippo, to convey some information to him. Augustine, Letter 57, North Africa, AD 396-410.
Letter 57
 
2. [...] Presbyter, quem misi, reliqua tuae prudentiae planius intimabit.[...]
 
(ed. Goldbacher 1898: 216)
Letter 53
 
2. [...] I have sent a presbyter who is going to explain the rest to Your Prudence more openly [...].
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
City
  • Hippo Regius

About the source:

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Title: Letters, Epistulae
Origin: Hippo Regius (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The letters of Augustine of Hippo cover a wide range of topics: Holy Scripture, dogma and liturgy, philosophy, religious practice and everyday life. They range from full-scale theological treatises to small notes asking someone for a favour. The preserved corpus includes 308 letters, 252 written by Augustine, 49 that others sent to him and seven exchanged between third parties. 29 letters have been discovered only in the 20th century and edited in 1981 by Johannes Divjak; they are distinguished by the asterisk (*) after their number.
The preserved letters of Augustine extend over the period from his stay at Cassiciacum in 386 to his death in Hippo in 430.
Edition:
Edition:
A. Goldbacher ed., S. Augustini Hipponiensis Episcopi Epistulae, Pars 2, Ep. 31-123, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 34/2,  Prague-Vienna-Leipzig 1898.
Translation:
Saint Augustine, Letters 1-99, trans. R. Teske, New York 2001.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
    Ecclesiastical administration - Ecclesiastical envoy
      Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
        Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER428, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=428