Folia Theologica 16. (2005)

Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi: The rules concerning bishops in the Decretales. Pseudo-Isidorianae, especially the regulation on the death of bishops

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titulos digesta belongs to the first, radical period of this reform,4 as a canonical handbook5 of the Roman Curia.6 This collection was compiled between 1050 and 1076. It contains 315 chapters under 74 titles. The author used for his work mainly letters of popes, which suit for the central concept of the reform. We can find also some canons of councils and some patristic texts, but these are very few. Only two authors from the patristic literature are represented in this collection, i. e. Cyprian (cf. Liber de catholicae ecclesiae unitate) and Maximus Taurinensis (i. e. Homily, 72nd).7

2. The chapters concerning bishops

86 chapters of 315 deal with discipline concerning bishops. 75 of 86 cite letters of popes; 9 of 86 take texts from different councils and 2 chapters quote parts of letters from patristic authors, namely from St. Cyprian.

John T. Gilchrist has published the critical edition of the 74 Title Digest in 1973,8 and he also prefaced it with a long and precise in4 STICKLER, A., Historia iuris canonici latini, Torino 1950. 160-165. ERDŐ, P., Die Quellen des Kirchenrechts. Eine geschichtliche Einführung (Adnotationes in lus Canonicum 23), Frankfurt am Main 2002. 91-92. FERME, B.E., Introduzione cdla storia del diriito canonico. 1-/1 diritto antico jino al Decretum di Graziano, Roma 1998. 161-165. PLÖCHL, W.M., Geschichte des Kirchenrechts. Wien-München 1962.“ II. 462-463. FOURNIER, P., „Les collections canoniques romaines de l'époque de Grégoire VIF’ in Mémoires de l'Institut National de France. Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 41 (1920) 271-397.

5 STICKLER, A., Historia. 167-170. ERDŐ, P.. Die Quellen des Kirchenrechts, 93. FERME, B.E., Introduzione, 169-171. FUHRMANN, H.. „Über den Reformgeist der 74-Titel-Sammlung (Diversorum Patrum Sententiae)” in Festschrift für Hermann Heimpel zum 70. Geburtstag am 19. September 1971, Göttingen 1972. 1101-1120. GILCHRIST, J.T., „The relationship between the Collection in Four Books and the Collection in Seventy-Four Titles” in Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 12 (1982) 13-30.

6 RYAN, J..L, Saint Peter Damiani and His Canonical Sources: a Preliminary Study in the Antecedents of Gregorian Reform (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Studies and Texts 2), Toronto 1956. 14.

7 Cap. 23.

8 GILCHRIST, J.T. (ed.), Diuersorutn patrum sententie sine Collectio in LXXIV titulos digesta (Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series B: Corpus Collectionum, Vol. 1), Città del Vaticano 1973.