Leo the Great and the social background of the Italian episcopate

Name: Leo the Great and the social background of the Italian episcopate
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RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA CHIESA IN ITALIA

Fascicolo

RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA CHIESA IN ITALIA - 2014 - 1

Titolo

Leo the Great and the social background of the Italian episcopate

Autore

Norman W. James

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Vita e Pensiero

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02-2015

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0035-6557 (stampa) | 1827-790X (digitale)

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Leo I’s sermon on the third anniversary of his consecration seems conventional, but tells us much about the contemporary Italian episcopate. The pope’s contention that his suffragan bishops should be chosen on the basis of their spiritual qualities and not their rank and birth was an attack on particular dynasties of Italian bishops at the time. They were often chosen precisely because of their paternity and family traditions of leadership in the world or the church. Leo was not concerned about great aristocratic bishops, who belonged to a previous generation of prominent churchmen in Italy. Bishops from families of local notables were his target. Leo proceeded to warn them against a cultural tradition of maintaining conjugal relations with their wives, using language normally employed to attack Julian of Aeclanum’s followers.