Episcopal elections 250-600 : hierarchy and popular will in late antiquity / Peter Norton.

This book details a topic of great importance in early Church history and late antiquity. It challenges the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops, and argues that this right remained in theory an...

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Main Author: Norton, Peter, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
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