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Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), deplores that the Pelagian heresy was invented, not by the bishops, presbyters or any other clerics, but by a monk. Augustine, "On the Proceedings of Pelagius", AD 417.
61. [...] Post ueteres haereses inlata est etiam modo haeresis non ab episcopis seu presbyteris uel quibusque clericis, sed a quibusdam ueluti monachis, quae contra Dei gratiam, quae nobis est per Iesum Christum dominum nostrum [...]
 
(ed. Urba - Zycha 1902: 115-116)
61. [... ] After the old heresies, a heresy has also recently been invented, not by bishops or presbyters, or any clergy, but by a certain sort of monk, which, under the guise of defending free will, has disputed against that “grace of God”,  which we have “through Jesus Christ our Lord” […].
 
(trans. J.A. Mourant)
 

About the source:

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Title: On the Proceedings of Pelagius, De gesta Pelagii
Origin: Hippo Regius (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
At the end of 415 Pelagius was acquitted of the charge of heresy by the synod of Diospolis in Palestine. In 417 Augustine published the acts of the synod together with his commentary, adding an account of his previous dealings with Pelagius and other details of Pelagius`s life.
Edition:
K. Urba, J. Zycha edd., Sancti Aureli Augustini De gestis Pelagii, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 42, Prague-Vienna-Lepizig 1902, 51-122.
 
Translation:
On the Proceedings of Pelagius, in:  Saint Augustine, Four Anti-Pelagian Writings, trans. J.A Mourant and W.J. Collinge, Washington 1992, 111-177.

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Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
    Theoretical considerations - On church hierarchy
      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, ER961, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=961
        Record by: Stanisław Adamiak
        last edited: 2017-06-20 11:54:26
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