Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity

✍ Scribed by Johan Leemans (editor), Peter Van Nuffelen (editor), Shawn W. J. Keough (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English, German
• Leaves: 620
• Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 119; 119
• Edition: Bilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another. The importance of episcopal elections hardly needs stating: With the bishop emerging as one of the key figures of late antique society, his election was a defining moment for the local community, and an occasion when local, ecclesiastical, and secular tensions were played out. Building on the state of the art regarding late antique bishops and episcopal election, this volume of collected studies by leading scholars offers fresh perspectives by focussing on specific case-studies and opening up new approaches. Covering much of the Later Roman Empire between 250-600 AD, the contributions will be of interest to scholars interested in Late Antique Christianity across disciplines as diverse as patristics, ancient history, canon law and oriental studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Table of Contents
Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity: Structures and Perspectives
Keynote Lectures
Episcopal Succession in Antioch in the Sixth Century
The Election of Ambrose of Milan
Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Syrian Episcopal Elections
L’élection d’archevêques diphysites au trône alexandrin (451-482): une désignation artificielle et contrainte?
Bischofswahl und Bischofsernennung im Synodicon Orientale
La royauté mérovingienne et les élections épiscopales au VIe siècle
Canonical Legislation on the Ordination of Bishops: Innocent I’s Letter to Victricius of Rouen
Christlicher Euergetismus ob honorem? Die Einsetzung von Klerikern in ihre Ämter und die von diesen vorangetriebenen Bauprojekte
Clerical Marriage and Episcopal Elections in the Latin West: From Siricius to Leo I
The Saint and the Bishop: Severinus of Noricum
Bishops and Clerics during the Fourth Century: Numbers and Their Implications
The Rhetoric of Rules and the Rule of Consensus
Les élections épiscopates en Égypte aux VIe- VIIe siècles
Bischofswahlen in Rom (3.-6. Jh.): Bedingungen – Akteure – Verfahren
Short Papers
Les élections épiscopales en Orient sous Sévère d’Antioche (512-518)
...ut sancto sanctus succederet... oder: Haben Heilige eine Wahl? Ein Ausblick auf die frühmittelalterliche Bischofserhebung in den Viten heiliger Bischöfe
Bishop Pesynthios of Koptos (Egypt): “He did not pursue the honour, but it was the honour that pursued him”
An Extraordinary Bishop: Eusebius of Caesarea in Cappadocia
The Election and Deposition of Meletius of Antioch: The Fall of an Integrative Bishop
Haeres Petri: Kontinuitat und Wandel in der Bischofsnachfolge des Siricius von Rom
Episcopal Succession as Criterion of Communion: The Rise of Rival Episcopal Genealogies in Alexandria according to Liberatus of Carthage
Epiphanius of Cyprus vs. John of Jerusalem: An Improper Ordination and the Escalation of the Origenist Controversy
Episcopal Elections in Gaul: The Normative View of the Concilia Galliae versus the Narrative Accounts
Ecclesia non abhorret a sanguine. Les élections épiscopales dans l’Église arménienne aux IVe-Ve siècles
Education, Humility and Choosing Ideal Bishops in Late Antiquity
Zum Beispiel Proklos von Konstantinopel. Über Chancen und Grenzen des spätantiken Bischofsamtes
The Election of Sahak I as Catholicos of the Armenian Church
Procedure and Hierarchy: Models of Episcopal Election in Late Antique Conciliar and Papal Rule making
Episcopal Self-Presentation: Sidonius Apollinaris and the Episcopal Election in Bourges AD 470
The Election of Paul the Jew (519) in Light of the Theopaschite Controversy
List of Authors
Indices
Index nominum
Index rerum
Index locorum