The Presbyters Project

Book I

48. Porro in ipso concilio statuistis, ut, qui nobis inuiti communicauerunt uel episcoporum uel presbyterorum, tantum si sacrificium non obtulerint aut in populo non tractauerint, ad ueniam pertineant et in suis recipiantur honoribus [...].

(ed. Petschenig 1910: 247)

Book I

48. Again, at the same council you made the decision that the bishops and presbyters, who had joined our communion against their will, would be given pardon and received back in their dignitites, only if they had not offered the sacrifice and had not preached to the people. [...]

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

Augustine refers to the Donatist council held in 418/419 (before the events in Thamugadi that were the cause of this work). We have no other information about it.

"Tractaverint" may have different meanings, but here it is parallel to the phrase "sermonem in populo fecerint" which appears later in the same paragraph.

Place of event:

Region

Latin North Africa

About the source:

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Title: Against Gaudentius, Contra Gaudentium
Origin: Hippo Regius (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Gaudentius, the Donatist bishop of Thamugadi, threatened in about 420 to barricade himself and his faithful in his basilica and burn it if the authorities tried to take it away from him. Augustine tried to dissuade him from it.

Edition:

M. Petschenig ed., Sancti Aureli Augustini Contra Gaudentium Donatistarum Episcopo libri II, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 54, Vienna-Lepizig 1910, 201-274.

Categories:

Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Donatist

Change of denomination

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Ritual activity - Eucharist

Pastoral activity - Preaching

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER958, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=958