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Chorbishop
(1,497 words)
Chorbishop (Gk χωρεπίσκοπος, επίσκοπος τῆς χώρας; Lat.
chorepiscopus,
episcopus vicanus) is the term designating a bishop who had authority over rural (Gk χώρα or κώμη; Lat.
pagus or
vicus) Christian communities, whereas a bishop was the religious leader of an urban community (πόλις). This ministry emerged, as can be inferred from documents, in the East between the 2nd and the 3rd centuries CE, in both mainstream Christianity and Montanist and Novatianist milieus (Eus.
Hist. eccl. 5.16.17; 7.30.10); the term is mentioned in Christian writings and conciliar documents …
Date:
2024-01-19
Didascalia Apostolorum
(1,387 words)
Didascalia apostolorum, also entitled the Syriac
Didascalia, is a pseudo-epigraphic work, written in Syria in the 3rd century CE. Belonging to the literary genre of church orders, it is chronologically situated between the
Didache, from which it was inspired, and the
Apostolic Constitutions, which embodied it in the first six books with substantial changes.The Author, Place, and Dating…
Date:
2024-01-19