The True Episcopate As Seen in the Original Constitution of the Church of Alexa
The True Episcopate As Seen in the Original Constitution of the Church of Alexa
Mason Gallagher
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D. 232, and it is well known that Hera- clas and Dionysius were both members of his presbytery towards the close of his episcopal administration. It was, therefore, shortly before his* demise that the new system was introduced. In certain parts of the Church the arrangement mentioned by Jerome probably continued some- what longer. Cyprian apparently hinted at such cases of exception when he says, that in ' almost all the provinces/ apud nos qnoque et fere per TESTIMONY OF KILLEN. 18^ provincias... universas tenetur (Epist. QS)^ the neigh- boring bishops assembled, on the occasion of an episcopal vacancy, at the new election and ordi- nation. It may have been that, in a few of the more considerable towns, the elders still con- tinued to nominate their president. " When the erudite Roman presbyter informs us that ' even at Alexandria, ' nam et Alexandrice, the elders formerly made their own bishop, his language obviously implies that such a mode of creating the chief pastor was not confined to the church of the metropolis of Egypt.
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