Folia Theologica 16. (2005)
Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi: The rules concerning bishops in the Decretales. Pseudo-Isidorianae, especially the regulation on the death of bishops
148 SZ. A. SZUROMl can be found at the end of the collection basically in one group under title 66: Hec capitula sparsim collecta sunt ct Angilranno Mcdiomatricc urbis episcopo Rome a bento papa Adriano tradita quando pro sui negotii causa inibi agebatur.29 The source of these texts was mainly the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana, but the compiler also very probably used the Capitula Angilramni,30 The discipline of the conciliar canons is harmonized with the chapters by popes. Surprisingly, the author did not use the traditional early conciliar canons to explain the rules of episcopal election and consecration.31 These early canons were fundamental to ecclesiastical discipline. The compiler could have taken them from the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana and also from the Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianac. Consequently, the chapters give answers only for the superintendent power of a bishop over the other degrees of Holy Orders; his competency for stating the fundamentals of the Catholic faith; possible conditions for the accusation of bishops; some disciplinary affairs; and about the obligation for consecration of the Sunday. Chapters 18 and 19, previously mentioned, are the only patristic chapters. They quote texts directly from a work of St. Cyprian. These chapters are the most substantial for the theological establishing of the bishop office. Their content is well supplemented by chapters 186, 187 and 188, which deal with the mystic connection between the bishop and his diocese as a spiritual marriage. 3. The content of chapters 1. The theory on the disciplines concerning bishops is more uniform than that found in the Collectio Canonum Ansclmi Lucensis, which used the 74 Title Digest as a main source of the papal canons. This probably is the result of the mostly false papal canons. It is known that the Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianac were intended particu29 GILCHRIST, J.T. (ed.), Diuersorum, 172-175. 30 Edition: HINSCHIUS, P„ Decretales. 755-769: cl'. MAY. G.. „Zu den Anklagebeschränkungen, inbesondere wegen Infamie, in den Capitula Angilramni" in Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 72 (1961) 106-1 12. 31 GRYSON, R., „Les elections episcopales en orient au IVe siècle” in Revue d'Histoire ecclesiastique 74 (1979) 301-345.
