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Chapter 13

32. The people of Nunti would like to have Fulgentius as their bishop. The Catholic bishops, notwithstanding the interdiction by the Vandal King Thrasamund, start consecrating new bishops:

33. ...Fit repente communis assumptio: presbyteros, diaconos et si quos inueniret electio, rapere, benedicere, consecrare certatim locis singulis properantibus, ne in tali studio aliquis aut tardus aut nouissimus uideretur...

Fulgentius, however, manages to hide and not be ordained.

(ed. Isola 2016: 189-190)

Chapter 13

32. The people of Nunti would like to have Fulgentius as their bishop. The Catholic bishops, notwithstanding the interdiction by the Vandal King Thrasamund, start consecrating new bishops:

33. ...So a widespread action suddenly began: the presbyters, deacons, and whoever was found worthy of the election, were snatched, blessed, and consecrated, every place wanting to be the first to do it, so that one does not look late or the last one in this effort.

Fulgentius, howevere, manages to hide and not be ordained.

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

Fulgentius managed only initially to escape from the ordination, and was eventually ordained the bishop of Ruspe (see [1433]).

Place of event:

Region

Latin North Africa

About the source:

Author: Ferrandus
Title: Vita Fulgentii, Life of Fulgentius
Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

None of the manuscripts transmitting the "Life of Fulgentius" provides the name of its author. It was firstly attributed to the deacon Ferrandus by Chifflet in 1649. This theory was largely accepted, by, among others, G.G. Lapeyre, who offered a critical edition of the "Life" in 1929. It was, however rejected by A. Isola in his 2016 edition for Corpus Christianorum, who retains it an anonymous work. It is dedicated to Felicianus, the successor of Fulgentius on the see of Ruspe, so it must have been written in a reasonable span of time after the death of Fulgentius in AD 533.

Edition:

A. Isola ed., Vita S. Fulgentii episcopi, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 91F, Turnhout 2016.

Categories:

Further ecclesiastical career - Bishop

PR658.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1428, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1428