To: newberger
“At that point, the Church (Eastern for the most part — Rome was more of a backwater) decided that restricting the bishops to monastics quenched that problem.”
When did this occur?
700 posted on
07/15/2013 7:05:53 PM PDT by
JCBreckenridge
("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
To: JCBreckenridge
Hmmm. You would ask that :-). I have been listening to a long series of podcasts on bishops in the church but I can’t remember the detail. I’ll try to find out and get back to you.
704 posted on
07/15/2013 7:10:20 PM PDT by
newberger
(Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men in whom there is no salvation.)
To: JCBreckenridge
OK, I found out a few things. To simplify things from my rapid search, it appears that the matter was defined / clarified by the Fifth-Sixth Council in Trullo in AD 692.
That name is used because that council created the canons for the previous Fifth and Sixth Ecumenical Councils.
No, I can't explain that further :-) Sorry.
708 posted on
07/15/2013 7:21:21 PM PDT by
newberger
(Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men in whom there is no salvation.)
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