The Presbyters Project

Letter 90 [inc. "Poposceram quidem"]

Per Bonifacium presbyterum.

Leo the Great, though concerned that the Emperor does not want to wait for a more opportune time for the council, expresses hope that the pending gathering will effectively shun the heresies of Nestorius and Eutyches. He cannot come himself but will send his legates.

2. Nec me quoque, ut voluit vestra clementia, ab illo credatis abesse concilio, cum in his fratribus quos direxi, id est Paschasino et Lucentio episcopis, Bonifactio et Basilio presbyteris, sed et in fratre meo Juliano, quem eorum volui esse participem, etiam mea sit aestimanda praesentia. [...] Data sexto kalendas Iulii, Adelfio viro clarissimo consule.

(Patrologia Latina 54, 932-934 = Ballerini 1753: 1063-1065)

Letter 90

Through the Presbyter Boniface.

2. Let Your Clemency do not consider me absent from this council because I will be present in my brothers whom I have sent, that is Bishop Paschasinus and Bishop Lucentius, the Presbyters Boniface and Basilius, and also in my brother Julian, whom I chose as their companion. [...] Given on the 6th day before the Kalends of July in the consulship of the vir clarissimus Adelfius [= 25 VI 451].

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Place of event:

Region

Rome
East

City

Rome
Constantinople

About the source:

Author: Leo the Great
Title: Letters, Epistulae
Origin: Rome (Rome)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Leo the Great was the bishop of Rome from AD 440 to his death in AD 461. We have the collection of 173 letters of Leo.

Edition:

P. and G. Ballerini eds., Sancti Leoni Magni Romani pontificis opera, vol. 1, Venice 1753

Patrologia Latina, vol. 54

Translation:

Leo the Great, Letters, trans. Ch. Lett Feltoe, [in:] The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd series, vol. 12, Edinburgh 1895, 1-114

Bibliography:

S. Wessel, Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome, Leiden ; Boston 2008.

Categories:

Travel and change of residence

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Ecclesiastical administration - Participation in councils and ecclesiastical courts

Ecclesiastical administration - Ecclesiastical envoy

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Relation with - Monarch and royal/imperial family

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1770, https://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1770