La giurisdizione episcopale nell'Alto Medievo. Riflessioni sul principio «un solo vescoso per città» sancito dal can. VIII del Concilio di Nicea I (325)

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Tammaro, Ciro
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	The article is a synthesized legal-historic examination of the administration of the sacrament of Holy Orders in the Early Middle Ages. Given that in the apostolic era and immediately afterwards the territorial limits of the organizational structures of the Church were not clear or defined as we now understand, the power of the bishops was not expressed as power over a physical territory as such, but over the people and things which had been entrusted to them by the consecration they had received and the corresponding pastoral commission. The necessity for an ordered exercise of episcopal power, linked to the specific praxis of government, appears to be the only reason to be found as a basis for the provisions contained in Canon VIII of the First Council of Nicea which stated, among great spiritual activity, the well-known rule «but one bishop of one city», which are analyzed in this study. The cardinal principle of episcopal power always was the apostolic one of discretio potestatis , mitigated by the criterion of the exclusive responsibility of the bishop for the faithful who were entrusted to his pastoral care.
Starting Page	623
Ending Page	636
Page Count	14
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Volume Number	46
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://dadun.unav.edu/bitstream/10171/17393/1/23435575.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/ius-canonicum/article/download/14615/15168
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.15581/016.92.%25p
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article