Chalcedon (titular see)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chalcedon (Italian Calcedonia) is a Catholic titular see, having the status of archdiocese.[1]. During the seventeenth century, the title Bishop of Chalcedon was officially given to the Roman Catholic Bishop of England after 1623.
Contents |
[edit] History
Chalcedon was an episcopal see at an early date; after the Council of Chalcedon it became a metropolitan see, but without suffragans. There is a list of its bishops in Lequien[2], completed by Anthimus Alexoudes[3], revised for the early period by Pargoire[4]. Among others are
- St. Adrian, a martyr;
- St. John, Sts. Cosmas and Nicetas, during the Iconoclastic period;
- Maris, the Arian;
- Heraclianus, who wrote against the Manichæans and the Monophysites;
- Leo, persecuted by Alexius Comnenus.
The titular Latin see is suffragan of Nicomedia. Lequien[5] mentions eight Latin bishops, from 1345 to 1443; Eubel[6] has ten names, from 1293 to 1525. Five other titular bishops of the sixteenth century are mentioned in the "Revue bénédictine"[7].[8]
[edit] The title in England
The title refers to an ancient see in Asia Minor because King James I of England agreed to allow a bishop to be named provided he did not have a title derived from an English See. The Bishop of Chalcedon had full authority over the regular priests and secular priests in England, Wales and Scotland.
[edit] Bishops
- Father William Bishop (1623-1624)
- Father Richard Smith (1624-1632)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Leys, M. D. R., Catholics in England 1559-1829: A social history (London : Camelot Press Ltd., 1961)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Catholic Hierarchy page
- ^ I, 599.
- ^ In Anatolikos Aster, XXX, 108.
- ^ In Echos d'Orient, III, 85, 204; IV, 21, 104.
- ^ III, 1019.
- ^ I, 199; II, 141.
- ^ 1904, 144-45, 155-56.
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia article
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
