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By Johan Leemans, Peter Van Nuffelen, Shawn W. J. Keough, Carla Nicolaye

The election of a brand new bishop used to be a defining second for neighborhood Christian groups in past due Antiquity. This quantity contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest attainable viewpoint, analyzing the numerous mix of things, personalities, ideas and conduct that performed a job within the technique. construction at the cutting-edge concerning overdue old bishops and episcopal election, this interdisciplinary quantity of gathered reports through prime students bargains clean views via focussing on particular case-studies and starting up new ways.

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Chron. (ed. Chabot vol. 2, 375-377), (hagiographical). Secondary works: Maspero, Histoire des patriarches d'Alexandrie (see note 41), 319-323; R. Devreesse, Le patriarcat d'Antioche depuis la paix de l'eglise jusqu'a la conquete arabe, Paris 1945, 102; Downey, History of Antioch (see note 1), 576-577; D. Olster, Chalcedonian and monophysite: the union of 616, Bulletin de la Societe d'archeologie copte 27, 1985, 93-108; P. Allen, Sophronius of Jerusalem and Seventh-Century Heresy. The Synodical Letter and Other Documents, OECT, Oxford 2009, 24, 26, 43, 59-61, 145.

A Tribute to Arthur Voobus. Studies in Early Christian Literature and Its Environment, Primarily in the Syrian East, Chicago 1977, 277-282. Sources: his writings (CPG 7250-7255); Mich. Syr. chron. (ed. Chabot vol. 2, 345348). Secondary works: Allen, Evagrius (see note 1), 32-36; Ebied, Van Roey, and Wickham, Anti-Tritheist Dossier (see note 3); Van Roey, La controverse (see note 3); Van Roey and Allen, Monophysite Texts (see note 3). Sources: Mich. Syr. chron. (ed. Chabot vol. 2, 234, 373, 375).

Syr. chron. (ed. Chabot vol. 2, 267), (hostile). Secondary sources: P. Van den Ven, La vie ancienne de S. Symeon Stylite le jeune (521-592), Subsidia Hagiographica 32, Brussels, 1970, vol. 2, 79; Grillmeier, Jesus der Christus 2/3, 307. From now on I indicate the shadow anti-Chalcedonian patriarchs by square brackets. Episcopal Succession in Antioch in the Sixth Century 31 tritheist; this is where tritheism first manifests itself as a factor in episcopal succession in sixth-century Antioch. The circumstances of Sergius' election and his patriarchate are unusual, to say the least: he was consecrated bishop in Constantinople as "successor" to Severus (d.

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