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ER 846
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa) claims that his clergy live in poverty as they promised. Sermon 356, 426 AD.
ID
ER 847
Canon 17 of the Council in Mérida (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 666 forbids clerics and laymen to revile a deceased bishop. A presbyter guilty of this wrongdoing shall be punished by three months of penance.
ID
ER 848
Canon 18 of the Council in Mérida (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 666 orders parish presbyters to ordain clerics from the familia of their church as their assistants.
ID
ER 849
Biton and Vicentius, presbyters of Rome, are representing the bishop of Rome at the Council of Nicaea, AD 325. Account of the Pseudo-Gelasius of Cyzicus, Ecclesiastical History, after AD 476.
ID
ER 850
Canon 19 of the Council in Mérida (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 666 orders presbyters who have many churches in their care to celebrate Mass on Sunday in each of them.
ID
ER 851
Canon 20 of the Council in Mérida (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 666 regulates the manumissions of slaves of the Church performed by bishops and presbyters.
ID
ER 852
Canon 22 of the Council in Mérida (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 666 imposes punishments on those who will not observe all the canons decreed by the council.
ID
ER 853
Canon 9 of the Council of Vannes (Gaul, AD 461/491) excommunicates clerics who go to secular courts.
ID
ER 854
Canon 10 of the Council of Vannes (Gaul, AD 461/491) forbids bishops to ordain for higher ecclesiastical positions clerics who were previously ordained for someone else.
ID
ER 855
Canon 11 of the Council of Vannes (Gaul, AD 461/491) forbids presbyters to attend wedding feasts.
ID
ER 856
Canon 12 of the Council of Vannes (Gaul, AD 461/491) forbids presbyters to feast with Jews.
ID
ER 857
Canon 3 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) forbids bishops and priests to celebrate liturgy differently than in the metropolitan see.
ID
ER 858
Canon 13 of the Council of Vannes (Gaul, AD 461/491) deals with drunken clerics.
ID
ER 859
Canon 14 of the Council of Vannes (Gaul, AD 461/491) obliges clerics to attend lauds in their home cities.
ID
ER 860
Canon 4 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) punishes priests who have conflicts with each other.
ID
ER 861
Canon 16 of the Council of Vannes (Gaul, AD 461/491) forbids clerics to practise divination.
ID
ER 862
Stanislaw, presbyter of the diocese of Torun (Prussia, East), falls asleep while copying the works of Fathers of the Church in Warsaw (Barbaricum) due to the critical shortages of coffee. Account of two malicious PhD candidates, ca 21st c.
ID
ER 863
DRAFT: Presbyter Lucidus, admonished by Faustus, bishop of Riez, retracts his views on predestination at the council gathered in his case in Arles (Gaul), ca 470 AD. Account in the letters of Faustus of Riez, writing in Riez (Gaul), ca 470 AD.
ID
ER 864
Canon 6 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) forbids priests to punish members of the familia of the Church with mutilation or death.
ID
ER 865
Canon 7 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) orders priests to pronounce sentences in criminal cases according to the described rules.
ID
ER 866
Canon 8 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) forbids bishops, presbyters, deacons and subdeacons to receive payments for baptism, anointment, consecration of chrism, or for promoting someone in clerical rank.
ID
ER 867
Canon 1 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) decides that the presbyters who are twice married or married to wives who were married before to someone else should only keep their title: they are forbidden to say mass.
ID
ER 868
Canon 2 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) grants the right to correct stubborn clerics to bishops. Clerics neglecting their duties should do penance, during which they could only receive peregrine communion.
ID
ER 869
Leporius, a presbyter from Augustine`s monastic community in Hippo Regius (North Africa), comes from a wealthy family. He gave his property to the monastery he founded and later administered. He built a xenodochium and bought a house on Augustine`s command. Augustine, Sermon 356, AD 426.
ID
ER 870
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa) says that he can accept in gift only such clothes as can be worn also by presbyters, deacons, and subdeacons, because he accepts them for the common store. Sermon 356, AD 426.
ID
ER 871
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa) reasserts his demand that all his clerics renounce their property and live in a community of goods with him. He says that those who do not accept it cannot serve in Hippo any more and should find places in other Churches. Sermon 356, AD 426.
ID
ER 872
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa) refers to rumours about the Presbyter Barnaba with regard to his possesions and the administration of the Church property. Sermon 356, AD 426.
ID
ER 873
Canon 10 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) orders clerics to swear before their ordination to guard the Catholic faith, observe the canonical rules, and be obedient to their superiors.
ID
ER 874
Canon 11 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) forbids to remove from one`s mouth the Eucharist received from a priest.
ID
ER 875
Canon 13 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) forbids persons possessed by demons to serve at the altars.
ID
ER 876
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), preaching in Hippo Diarrhytus, mentions the violence of Donatists against the Catholics. Sermon 359, ca AD 411.
ID
ER 877
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa) mentions his relationship with the bishop of Constantina (Fortunatus), previously a presbyter at Thagaste. Augustine, Sermon 359B (Dolbeau 2), AD 404.
ID
ER 878
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa) argues for the validity of the baptism administered by presbyters-sinners. Augustine, Sermon 293A (Dolbeau 3 = Mainz 7), AD 407.
ID
ER 879
Augustine, the bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), while describing the council of Jerusalem (ca 50 AD), refers to the "elders of the Church" as "presbyters". Augustine, Sermon 162C (Dolbeau 10), AD 397.
ID
ER 880
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), refers to Presbyters Orosius, Jerome, and Urbanus in the context of the Pelagian controversy. Augustine, Sermon 348A (Dolbeau 30), AD 416.
ID
ER 881
Canon 14 of the Eleventh Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 675) orders that every cleric that sings psalms or offers the sacrifice shall have an assistant that could replace him in case of sickness.
ID
ER 882
Canon 2 of the Twelfth Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 681) forbids priests to give penance to unconscious or unwilling persons.
ID
ER 883
A presbyter appears in a dream to a sick man and tells him to go to be baptised by the bishop. Account of Augustine, "The Care To Be Taken for the Dead", Hippo Regius (North Africa), ca 421 AD.
ID
ER 884
Restitutus, the presbyter of the diocese of Calama (North Africa) is cataleptic (resistent to any sensation and pain). Account of Augustine of Hippo, "The City of God", Book 14, AD 417/427.
ID
ER 885
Augustine, the bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), talking about the common priesthood of all the baptized, refers to the bishops and presbyters as the "priests (sacerdotes)". "The City of God", Book 20, AD 417/427.
ID
ER 886
Some clerics, including the Presbyter Golosus, visit daily a sick layman Innocentius, comfort him, and pray with him. Carthage (North Africa), AD 388. Account of Augustine, "The City of God", Book 22, 417/427 AD.
ID
ER 888
Biton (Bitus) and Vincentius, presbyters from Rome, are representing the bishop of Rome at the Council of Nicaea (Asia Minor, AD 325). Account of ps.-Gelasius of Cyzicus, Ecclesiastical History, ca AD 475.
ID
ER 889
Augustine, the bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), describes how, during his absence, one of his presbyters liberated by the Eucharist and prayers the household of Hesperius from demonic attacks. "The City of God", Book 22, AD 417/427.
ID
ER 890
Augustine of Hippo Regius (North Africa) describes how a virgin of Hippo was cured of a demon when she anointed herself with oil mixed with the tears of a presbyter who was praying for her. "The City of God", Book 22, AD 417/427.
ID
ER 891
Presbyter Eucharius of Calama is healed through the power of the relics of St. Stephen. Account of Augustine of Hippo, "The City of God", Book 22, AD 417/427.
ID
ER 892
Martialis, a pagan of Calama (North Africa), is miraculously healed by the intercession of St Stephen, and later baptised by the presbyters (as the bishop was absent), all in AD 417/427. Account of Augustine of Hippo, "The City of God", Book 22, AD 417/427.
ID
ER 893
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa) describes the Manichaean Church hierarchy. Augustine, "De haeresibus", AD 428/430.
ID
ER 894
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), describes the views of the Aerians, the followers of the Presbyter Aerius of Pontus in the 4th c., who taught that the presbyters were equal to bishops. Augustine, "De haeresibus", 428/430 AD.
ID
ER 895
Emperor Constantine III is sieged in Arles (Gaul) by the general Gerontius. Gerontius escapes the army of the Emperor Honorius who eventually defeats Constantine III. Constantine escapes to the church and is ordained a presbyter. Then he is sent with his son Julian to Italy, and both are murdered during the journey, AD 411. Account of Hermias Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History, ca AD 443-448.
ID
ER 896
A debate is held in Hippo Regius (North Africa) against the Manichean Presbyter Fortunatus. Augustine, "A Debate with Fortunatum", AD 392.
ID
ER 898
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius, obtains a copy of the letter of the Donatist Bishop Petilianus to his clergy. "Against Petilianus", Book 1, AD 400.
ID
ER 899
Reparatus, bishop of Carthage, and other African bishops, in the letter to Pope John II ask what to do with a former Arian priest. At the end of the letter they refer to their decisions concerning the "vagabond" clerics who left Africa and went to the "overseas regions". Letter 85 in the Collectio Avellana, compiled in the second half of the 6th century.
ID
ER 900
Canon 5 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) orders clerics who have stolen something from the church to receive only a peregrine communion.
ID
ER 901
Canon 4 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) excommunicates everybody who will keep to himself an offering made to the church by someone else or decide to take back something he has previously offered.
ID
ER 902
Canon 8 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) orders that if a layman were to grant protection to a cleric fleeing justice, he or she would be excommunicated along with the said cleric.
ID
ER 903
Canon 9 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) cites the letter of Pope Innocentius, who insists on compliance with the decrees of pope Siricius, forbidding presbyters to engage in any sexual intercourse, marital included.
ID
ER 904
Augustine, the bishop of Hippo Regius, refers to the cases of the Donatist bishops and presbyters deposed for love affairs. "Against Petilianus", Book 2, AD 401.
ID
ER 905
Augustine, the bishop of Hippo Regius mentions the avarice and drunkenness of Donatist bishops and presbyters. "Against Petilianus", Book 2, 401 AD.
ID
ER 906
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius confirms that while a presbyter (391-395), he was accused of misconduct by Megalius, the bishop of Calama, who later withdrew his accusation. Augustine, "Against Petilianus", Book 3, AD 401/403.
ID
ER 907
Emperor Constantine III is sieged in Arles (Gaul) by the general Gerontius. Gerontius escapes the army of emperor Honorius who eventually defeats Constantine III. Constantine escapes to the church and is ordained a presbyter. Then he is sent with his son Julian to Italy, and both are murdered during the journey, AD 411. Account of Olympiodorus of Thebes (East), after AD 425.
ID
ER 908
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius, is accused by the Donatist Petilian of having been a Manichaean presbyter. Augustine, "Against Petilianus", Book 3, 401/403 AD.
ID
ER 909
Splendonius, a Catholic deacon in Gaul, is condemned by the Catholic Church, rebaptised by the Donatists, ordained presbyter in Constantina (North Africa), and later condemned by the Donatist Church. Augustine, "Against Petilianus", Book 3, 401/403 AD.
ID
ER 910
Presbyter Victor gives to the authorities the names of the lectors during the persecutions. Cirta (Constantina, North Africa), 303 AD. Account in "Gesta apud Zenophilum", 320 AD.
ID
ER 911
DRAFT: The clergy of Cirta (Constantina, North Africa), among them presbyters, are present when the property of the Church is catalogued by the authorities during the persecutions, 303 AD. Fragment of the acts of Munatius Felix, the permanent priest (''flamen perpetuus"), 303 AD, preserved in "Gesta apud Zenophilum", 320 AD.
ID
ER 912
DRAFT: Bishop Fortis accuses Silvanus and other Donatist leaders of having betrayed during the persecutions, accepting money from Lucilla to foment the schism, and ordaining the fuller Victor presbyter for money. 320 AD.
ID
ER 913
A presbyter, father of the Catholic bishop of Thubursicu Bure (North Africa) dies as a result of the assault of the Donatists, AD 404. Augustine, "Against Cresconius", Book 3, ca AD 406.
ID
ER 914
The Donatist presbyter Crispinus organises an ambush against Catholics. His bishop and relative, Crispinus, does not punish him, and as the result is declared a heretic by the proconsul. Calama (North Africa), AD 404. Account of Augustine, "Against Cresconius", Book 3, ca. AD 406.
ID
ER 915
Canon 10 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) forbids clerics to live in one house and spend time with women to whom they are not related.
ID
ER 916
Canon 3 of the Twelfth Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 681) orders that people that are found innocent by the king shall also be received in the Church by priests.
ID
ER 917
Restitutus, an ex-Donatist presbyter, is kidnapped, beaten, and imprisoned by the Donatists. Hippo Regius, North Africa, ca 405. Augustine, "Against Cresconius", Book 3, ca AD 406.
ID
ER 918
Canon 11 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) forbids all women to serve as maids in the private chambers of clerics.
ID
ER 919
The Donatist Presbyter Peregrinus together with the elders of the Churches of Mustis and Assuras fill in the official complaint against the Maximianist Bishop Felicianus, Carthage, AD 395. Augustine, "Against Cresconius", Book 3, ca AD 406.
ID
ER 920
Presbyter Evagrius is a deputy of an unnamed bishop, possibly Paulinus of Antioch (Syria) at the Council in Aquileia (Italy) in AD 381. The Acts of the Council of Aquileia, AD 381.
ID
ER 921
Presbyter Attalus is interrogated about the Nicaean creed at the council in Aquileia (Italy) in 381. The acts of the council of Aquileia, AD 381.
ID
ER 922
Canon 14 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) decrees that the altars should be consecrated by priestly benediction in addition to the usual anointment with chrism.
ID
ER 923
Canon 15 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) requires penitents to receive the imposition of hands and a hair shirt from a priest.
ID
ER 924
Canon 17 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) decrees that no one can be ordained presbyter unless he is at least thirty years old.
ID
ER 925
The Donatists have only a presbyter, not a bishop, in Usula (North Africa) in 411 AD. Account of the Acts of the Conference of Carthage, 411 AD.
ID
ER 926
A Donatist presbyter gives to a certain Constantinus a Donatist pamphlet about baptism. Augustine, "On the Only Baptism", AD 410/411.
ID
ER 927
Augustine, the bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), is incensed by the Donatist practice of rebaptising converts, even the presbyters and bishops. Augustine, "On the Only Baptism", AD 410/411.
ID
ER 928
The Donatists claim that the Roman presbyters Miltiades, Marcellus and Sylvester, all future popes, betrayed during the persecution of AD 303. Account of Augustine, "On the Only Baptism", AD 410/411.
ID
ER 929
Canon 20 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) forbids clerics to grow long hair or wear indecent clothes.
ID
ER 930
Palladius, bishop of Ratiaria (Dacia) requests the independent observers at the Council of Aquileia. Ambrose, bishop of Milan (Italy), accuses him that he wants priests to be judged by the lay men. Chromatius, presbyter of Aquileia, takes part in the discussion. The Acts of the Council of Aquileia, AD 381.
ID
ER 932
During the Conference of Carthage (AD 411) the Catholics say that there were possibly two Stratons in Rome at the beginning of the 4th c. One of them, a presbyter, could have been a traditor. Account of Augustine, "Breviculum collationis", AD 411/412.
ID
ER 933
The Donatists do not have a bishop in Abziri (North Africa) in AD 411. A presbyter from the diocese of Uthina is delegated there. Account of the Acts of the Conference of Carthage, AD 411.
ID
ER 934
An ex-Donatist presbyter, Cassianus, is the Catholic bishop of Vamaccura (North Africa), 411 AD. Account of the Acts of the Conference of Carthage, AD 411.
ID
ER 935
Sabinus, a Donatist presbyter in Tucca, diocese of Milevis (North Africa), passes to the Catholic Church with his entire community and becomes a bishop. Before AD 411. Account of the Acts of the Conference of Carthage, 411 AD.
ID
ER 936
Canon 21 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) permits clerics to celebrate Mass in private oratories with the exception of major feast days.
ID
ER 937
Canon 22 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) forbids presbyters to sell or give away church property.
ID
ER 938
Canon 26 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) describes the consequences of committing a fraud on ecclesiastical documents by a cleric.
ID
ER 939
Canon 27 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) decrees that monks can be ordained clerics only with the approval of their abbots.
ID
ER 940
Canon 5 of the Twelfth Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 681) orders priest to always eat the bread they consecrated during the mass.
ID
ER 941
Canon 30 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) describes the correct order of prayers, and the parts of the Mass that require a presbyter or bishop.
ID
ER 942
Canon 32 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) forbids clerics to appeal to the secular court.
ID
ER 943
Canon 36 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) decrees that stipends should be paid to clerics according to their merit and synodal canons.
ID
ER 944
The Donatists do not have a bishop, but only a presbyter in Avensa (North Africa) in AD 411. Account of the Acts of the Conference of Carthage, AD 411.
ID
ER 945
The Donatists have presbyters in the Churches of Zuri and of Nigrensium Maiorum (North Africa) in AD 411. Account of the Acts of the Conference of Carthage, AD 411.
ID
ER 946
Canon 38 of the Council of Agde (Gaul, AD 506) decrees that clerics should not travel without the commendation letters of their bishops.
ID
ER 947
Canon 6 of the Twelfth Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 681) gives the bishop of Toledo the right to intervene in ecclesiastical elections in other provinces.
ID
ER 948
Canon 9 of the Twelfth Council in Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 681) confirms the anti-Jewish laws issued by King Ervig the previous year.