2360 results

ID

ER 1258

Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage (North Africa), informs the presbyters, deacons, and people of Carthage that he accepted into the clergy of Carthage the presbyter Numidicus, a victim of persecutions in another place. He mentions that some of the presbyters lapsed during the persecutions. Cyprian, Letter 40, AD 250.

ID

ER 1259

Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage (North Africa) sends the Presbyters Rogatianus and Numidicus to help the poor. Cyprian, Letter 41, AD 251.

ID

ER 1260

Bishops Caldonius, Herculanus and Victor, and the presbyters Rogatianus and Numidicus announce the excommunication of Felicissimus and his followers. Letter 42 in the epistolary of Cyprian, Carthage (North Africa), AD 251.

ID

ER 1261

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Africa), warns the people of Carthage to avoid Felicissimus and five presbyters who created a schism with him. Cyprian, Letter 43, AD 251.

ID

ER 1262

Canon 2 of the Second Council of Vaison (Gaul, AD 529) grants the presbyters serving both in the cities and in the parishes the right to deliver sermons.

ID

ER 1263

Canon 6 of the Second Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 533) orders that when the bishop dies a bishop from another city who would come to bury him should choose a presbyter to guard the Church property until the new bishop is elected.

ID

ER 1264

Canon 9 of the Second Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 533) forbids presbyters to live in one house with laymen unless permitted by their bishops.

ID

ER 1265

Canon 13 of the Second Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 533) forbids presbyters to give letters of recommendation.

ID

ER 1266

Canon 14 of the Second Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 533) demotes clerics who disregard their duties.

ID

ER 1267

Canon 16 of the Second Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 533) forbids to ordain to the presbyterate someone who is illiterate and does not know the rite of baptism.

ID

ER 1268

Five presbyters sign the acts of the Second Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 533) on behalf of their absent bishops.

ID

ER 1269

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, informs Cornelius, bishop of Rome, that he did not accept into communion the followers of Novatian, among them the presbyter Maximus. Cyprian, Letter 44, AD 251.

ID

ER 1270

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Africa) writes to Cornelius, bishop of Rome about the presbyters who joined Felicissimus in his schism. Cyprian, Letter 45, AD 251.

ID

ER 1271

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Africa), apologises to Cornelius, bishop of Rome, that while Cyprian was in Hadrumetum (North Africa), the letters of the presbyters of the city were addressed to the presbyters and deacons of Rome, and not to Cornelius. Cyprian, Letter 48, AD 251.

ID

ER 1272

Cornelius, bishop of Rome, writes to Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, about the return of some of the confessors to the Church, the presbyter Maximus among them, who was allowed by Cornelius to sit again in his place. Cornelius, Letter 49 in the epistolary of Cyprian, AD 251.

ID

ER 1273

Cornelius, bishop of Rome, informs Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Africa), about the schismatics, among them presbyters. Letter 50 in the epistolary of Cyprian, AD 251.

ID

ER 1274

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Africa), congratulates Cornelius, bishop of Rome, on the return of some of the confessors, among them Presbyter Maximus, to the unity of the Church. Cyprian, Letter 51, AD 251.

ID

ER 1275

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Africa), denounces the immoral behaviour of his ex-presbyter, Novatus. Cyprian, Letter 52, AD 251.

ID

ER 1276

Roman confessors, among them the Presbyter Maximus, inform Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage, that they made peace with their Bishop Cornelius. In response, Cyprian congratulates them on it. Cyprian, Letters 53 and 54, AD 251.

ID

ER 1277

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Arfica), writes to Bishop Antonianus, who tends towards the Novatian schism. Cyprian reminds him about the history of the controversy.

ID

ER 1278

Presbyters Gregory and Tonantius from Écija (Iberian Peninsula) testify in a hearing at the Sixth Council of Toledo in AD 638 in the case of deposed bishop Martianus of Écija. "Exemplar judicii inter Martianum et Aventium episcopos" attached to the acts and canons of the Sixth Council of Toledo in AD 638.

ID

ER 1279

Canon 4 of the Council of Clermont (Gaul, AD 535) forbids laymen to appoint clerics against the will of their bishops.

ID

ER 1280

Canon 7 of the Council of Clermont (Gaul, AD 535) forbids using the corporal to cover the bodies of deceased priests.

ID

ER 1281

Canon 11 of the Council of Clermont (Gaul, AD 535) forbids bishops to receive clerics of another bishop or to ordain them priests.

ID

ER 1282

Canon 13 of the Council of Clermont (Gaul, AD 535) orders presbyters to separate from their wives after ordination.

ID

ER 1283

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) mentions the blessing of the people given by the priests. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1284

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) explains who the clerics are and what is the origin of their Latin. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1285

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) describes the general rules that shall be observed by the clerics. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1286

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) distinguishes two kinds of clercis - those living under the direction of the bishop, and those who wander and are not obedient to one prelate. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1287

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) describes the clerical tonsure and explains its origin. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1288

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) presents the Old and New Testament sources of the priesthood. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1289

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) states that one may be made a priest from the age of 30. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1290

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) says that one cannot be ordained a priest if he commited a mortal sin after baptism. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1291

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) on the prerogatives of chorbishops, and that they shall not ordain presbyters. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1292

Canon 14 of the Council of Clermont (Gaul, AD 535) excommunicates people who steal Church property and do not give it back after being admonished by a priest.

ID

ER 1293

Canon 15 of the Council of Clermont (Gaul, AD 535) decrees that the presbyters serving in the private oratories must attend principal festivities with their bishop in the city.

ID

ER 1294

Canon 16 of the Council of Clermont (Gaul, AD 535) forbids presbyters to live in one house with non-related women.

ID

ER 1295

Liberius, bishop of Rome, is expelled by Emperor Constantius for his refusal to condemn Athanasius of Alexandria. In the meantime the clergy of Rome renounce obedience to Liberius, and choose the archdeacon Felix as a new pontiff, all in AD 355. Account of the schism between Liberius and Felix, written in the 5th/6th c. and included in the Collectio Avellana compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1296

The people of Rome asks the Emperor Constantius in AD 357 for the return of their exiled bishop, Liberius, and the emperor agrees.The rival bishop Felix installs himself in the Basilica Julia. After his death in AD 365 Liberius forgives his clerical supporters. Account of the schism between Liberius and Felix, written in the 5th/6th c. and included in the Collectio Avellana compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1297

The Roman clergy takes an active role in the schism between Ursinus and Damasus in AD 366-367. Account of the schism between Liberius and Felix, written in the late 5th or 6th century and included in the Collectio Avellana, compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1298

After the expulsion of Bishop Ursinus his lay supporters are conducting services in the cemeteries without clerics who generally support Bishop Damasus. Damasus is responsible for a massacre on one of such gatherings at the tomb of Saint Agnes in AD 367. Account of the account of the schism between Liberius and Felix) written the 5th/6th c., number 1 in the Collectio Avellana compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1299

After the death of Zosimus, bishop of Rome, the schism arises between Eulalius and the presbyter Boniface that is supported by other presbyters. The letter of Ancius Aurelius Symmachus, prefect of Rome to the Emperor Honorius, AD 418.

ID

ER 1300

Funerary inscription of the presbitera Leta from Tropea (Italy) who died in the age of forty, the 5th c.

ID

ER 1301

Funerary inscription of the presbyter Monses from Tropea (Calabria, Italy) who died in the age of sixty, the 5th c.

ID

ER 1302

DRAFT: Presbyters present in John Cassian`s "Conferences" (Gaul, AD 420).

ID

ER 1303

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Africa), suggests that Cornelius, bishop of Rome, served on all grades of the ecclesiastical career before his episcopal election. Cyprian, Letter 55, AD 252.

ID

ER 1304

The clergy of Rome participates in the election of their bishop, Cornelius, in AD 251. Account of Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (North Africa), Letter 55, AD 252.

ID

ER 1305

Canon 2 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids presbyters to take wives, or have sex with wives they had taken before ordination.

ID

ER 1306

Canon 4 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids presbyters to live in one house with non-related women.

ID

ER 1307

Canon 5 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) describes the correct division of the offerings made to the church.

ID

ER 1308

Canon 6 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) describes the impediments to presbyterial ordination. It also tells about the clerical or lay witnesses who testify the worthiness of the candidate to ordination.

ID

ER 1309

Canon 7 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) punishes clerics who marry after ordination and bishops who ordain clerics against their will.

ID

ER 1310

Canon 8 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) describes the punishment for members of the higher clergy who committed adultery.

ID

ER 1311

Canon 9 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) describes the punishment fitting for the members of the higher clergy who have committed theft, fraud, or perjury.

ID

ER 1312

Canon 12 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) strips of all ecclesiastical stipends clerics who neglect their duties and disobey their bishops.

ID

ER 1313

Canon 13 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids priests to alienate or mortgage an ecclesiastical property, and urges them to reclaim the property alienated by their predecessors.

ID

ER 1314

Canon 15 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) orders priests to say Mass early in the morning on feast days, so that they can come back for the evening services after attending to their duties during the day.

ID

ER 1315

Canon 16 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids bishops to ordain clerics from another dioceses.

ID

ER 1316

Canon 17 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids clerics who move to other cities to be promoted to higher ecclesiastical grades without the permission of their bishops.

ID

ER 1317

Canon 18 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids presbyters to travel without letters of recommendation from their bishops.

ID

ER 1318

Canon 19 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids priests to grant communion to excommunicated raptors of consecrated women.

ID

ER 1319

Canon 20 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) describes the endowments made by bishops to their clerics.

ID

ER 1320

Canon 21 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) leaves it to the decision of the bishop whether the city cleric appointed to the monastery, parish, or basilica should retain some of his previous revenue.

ID

ER 1321

Canon 22 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) states that clerics not fulfilling their duties should be suspended until they do sufficient penance. They should still receive their stipends for the period of their penance.

ID

ER 1322

Canon 23 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) decrees that clerics dissatisfied with the way their bishops treat them should appeal to the synod.

ID

ER 1323

Canon 24 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) deals with conspiracies among clerics.

ID

ER 1324

Canon 25 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) excommunicates all who would threaten the property of the priest or his Church.

ID

ER 1325

Canon 26 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids presbyters to alienate or mortgage the ecclesiastical property.

ID

ER 1326

Canon 29 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids slaves and colons to be accepted into the clergy.

ID

ER 1327

Canon 30 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids presbyters to engage in business activities, e.g. practise usury.

ID

ER 1328

Canon 31 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) decrees that those who work on Sunday should be punished by the priest and not the lay authority.

ID

ER 1329

Canon 32 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids leaving the Mass before the Lord`s prayer. Priest should administer penance to those who carry arms to the Mass.

ID

ER 1330

Canon 35 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids clerics to bring anyone to secular courts, and laymen to bring clerics to secular courts.

ID

ER 1331

Seven presbyters subscribe the acts of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) on behalf of their absent bishops.

ID

ER 1332

Canon 23 of the First Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 511) decrees that the Church is still able to recover the property given to a cleric, even after the time of prescription has passed.

ID

ER 1333

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) explains the etymology of the name "presbyter", and demonstrates that they belong together with bishops to the grade of priests. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1334

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) explains the difference between the priests and deacons. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1335

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) says that the ordination of priests and deacons is accompanied with the imposition of hands, unlike the ordination of the lower clergy. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1336

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) explains why the virgins are veiled for their consecration and women cannot be admitted to the holy orders. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1337

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) mentions the blessing of marriages by the priest. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1338

Isidore, bishop of Seville (Iberian Peninsula) says that the Holy Spirit is conferred by the rite of laying of the hands and anointment and points out that it is a sole prerogative of the bishops. Isidore of Seville, On the Ecclesiastical Offices, AD 598/636.

ID

ER 1339

After the death of Zosimus, bishop of Rome, the schism arises between the archdeacon Eulalius and the presbyter Boniface that is supported by other presbyters (AD 418). At the instigation of Ancius Aurelius Symmachus, the prefect of Rome, the Emperor Honorius supports Eulalius and exiles Boniface. The presbyters supporting Boniface send a petition to the emperor, AD 419. Letter 17 in the Collectio Avellana compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1340

After the double election of Boniface and Eulalius on the bishopric of Rome, the presbyters supporting Boniface wrote a petition to the Emperor Honorius to ask him to withdraw his support to Eulalius. In response, Honorius sends the letter to the prefect Anicius Aurelius Symmachus in which he orders both parties to come to the court in Ravenna, AD 419. The letter 18 included in the Collectio Avellana, compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1341

Avitus, presbyter of Braga (Iberian Peninsula) writes a letter to Bishop Balconius Braga and his clergy, in which he informs about the discovery of the relics of St. Stephen in Caphargamala (Palestine). He attaches to the letter his translation of the account about the discovery of relics, written by the presbyter Lucianus of Caphargamala, AD 416.

ID

ER 1342

Marcellinus and Faustinus, the Luciferian presbyters from Rome, write a letter to the emperors Valentinian, Theodosius, and Arcadius asking for protection against some representatives of the Nicene episcopacy that persecute the Luciferians. The so-called "Libellus precum" written in AD 383/4 included in the Collectio Avellana (Letter 2), compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1343

Faustinus, the Luciferian presbyter from Rome, sends to Emperor Theodosius the creed to which he adheres. Faustinus, Confessio Fidei, written ca AD 379/384 in the East (in Eleutheropolis or Constantinople?).

ID

ER 1344

Canon 2 of the Fourth Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 541) prohibits priests from prescribing longer Lent than that lasting forty days. Everyone breaking the fast will answer to the priest.

ID

ER 1345

Canon 6 of the Fourth Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 541) decrees that bishops should send synodal decrees to the parish clergy, so that they could not claim ignorance of the canon law.

ID

ER 1346

Canon 7 of the Fourth Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 541) forbids noblemen to assign the wandering clerics to their private oratories against the will of the local bishop.

ID

ER 1347

Canon 10 of the Fourth Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 541) forbids to ordain presbyters from those who have been married twice or those married to a widow.

ID

ER 1348

Canon 11 of the Fourth Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 541) forbids abbots and presbyters to seize for themselves things conferred on them as heads of monasteries or parishes.

ID

ER 1349

Canon 13 of the Fourth Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 541) excludes presbyters from all public works and taxes.

ID

ER 1350

Canon 15 of the Fourth Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 541) describes the punishment for those who offer sacrifices to demons despite having been admonished by priests.

ID

ER 1351

Vincentius, presbyter from the province of Baetica in the Iberian Peninsula, refuses to enter the communion with the bishops who during the reign of Constantius II complied with the Arian formulation of faith, but afterwards adhered anew to the Nicene party, ca AD 362/384. He is persecuted by them. Account of the Libellus precum written in Constantinople by the Roman presbyters Faustinus and Marcellinus, ca AD 383/384, included in the Collectio Avellana compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1352

Bonosus, presbyter in Trier (Gaul), refuses to enter the communion with the bishops who during the reign of Constantius II complied with the Arian formulation of faith, but afterwards adhered anew to the Nicene party, ca AD 362/384. He is persecuted by them. Account of the Libellus precum written in Constantinople by the Roman presbyters Faustinus and Marcellinus, ca AD 383/384, included in the Collectio Avellana (Letter 2) compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1353

Macarius, presbyter in Rome, refuses to enter the communion with the bishops who during the reign of Constantius II complied with the Arian formulation of faith, but afterwards adhered anew to the Nicene party, ca AD 366/368. He is persecuted by Bishop Damasus of Rome and exiled dies in Ostia. Account of Libellus precum written in Constantinople by the Roman presbyters Faustinus and Marcellinus, ca AD 383/384, included in the Collectio Avellana compiled in the second half of the 6th c.

ID

ER 1354

Presbyter Etherius of Naples coerces and expels a certain Florus (possibly a bishop), who claimed to have been given the power of Saint Sossius. Account of Quodvultdes, "Dimidium temporis", South Italy, AD 443/454.

ID

ER 1355

Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage (North Africa) uses the passage of Leviticus 19:32 to show that reverence is due to the bishops and presbyters. Cyprian, "Ad Quirinum", AD 248/249.

ID

ER 1356

Deacon Ferrandus of Carthage salutes the presbyters, deacons and the whole congregation of Ruspe (North Africa). The letter of Ferrandus to Fulgentius, transmitted as Letter 13 in the epistolary of Fulgentius, AD 523/527.

ID

ER 1357

DRAFT: The presbyter Heraclius pronounces a homily in the presence of Bishop Augustine. Hippo (North Africa)

<<<...10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ...>>>