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Source Information
Author English bishops
Source Title Letter of the English bishops to Pope Leo III
Date of composition [805]
Language Latin
Primary Source Information
Repository British Library
Country United Kingdom
Manuscript location London
Folio(s)/page(s) 176
Provenance Worcester or York
Siglum/accession no. Cotton Vespasian A.xiv

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
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Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland Haddan, Arthur West, Stubbs, William Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland New York 1871 559-61

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 560 In this letter Alcuin 1 said that any archbishop has to be ordained by another archbishop and the pope had to send him the pallium.
2 Event Bishops.Ep  pp. 559-61 All the bishops of England (Anonymi 1811) wrote to Leo 1 the obligation of the archbishops to go to Rome. They said that they had read in Bede how initially their predecessors did not have to go to Rome to collect the pallium. This practice developed only later on.
3 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 560 Honorius 2 sent the pallium and a letter to Honorius 1, archbishop of Kent
4 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 560 Paulinus 1 ordained Honorius 1 archbishop
5 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 560 Paulinus 1 converted the Northumbrians and their king
6 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 560 Honorius 2 sent the pallium to Paulinus 1.
7 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 560 Justus 1 consecrated Paulinus 1.
8 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 560 Augustine 1 consecrated both Mellitus 1 and Justus 1.
9 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 560 Boniface 2 sent the pallium to Justus 1.
10 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 559 Laurence 2 was consecrated bishop by Augustine 1.
11 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 559 Augustine 1 was ordained archbishop by Etherius 1, following the orders of Gregory 1 the Great
12 Event Bishops.Ep  p. 559 Gregory 1 sent a monk, Augustine 1, to preach to the English people