Eudes de Sully[1] (died 1208) was bishop of Paris, from 1198 to 1208.
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On the political stage, he came into conflict with the French king, Philip Augustus, over Philip's intended repudiation of his wife[2].
As churchman, he continued the building work on Notre Dame de Paris. He is considered the first to have emphasized the elevation of the Host during the Catholic Mass[3]. He in 1175 forbade communion for children[4]. Odo's decree on custody of reserved hosts, requiring a "clean pyx", was influential in England.
In surviving decrees, he as bishop is seen addressing a number of social matters. He attempted to regulate celebrations in his cathedral[5], Christmas[6] and the Feast of Fools[7]. He also tried to ban chess[8].
He is known too for his promotion of polyphony in church, and the music of Pérotin.[9]
He was a founder of the abbey that became Port-Royal.[10]
His brother Henry de Sully was archbishop of Bourges. Their father, also Eudes of Sully, was son of Guillaume de Blois[11].
His predecessor, Maurice de Sully, was not a close family connection.
Eudes' synodal decrees appear in volume 22 of Giovanni Domenico Mansi's Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio , 53 vols., Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlangsanstalt, 1961. More recently Odette Pontal produced a critical edition of these statutes in Les statuts synodaux Français du XIIIe siècle. Tome 1: Les Statuts de Paris et le synodal de l'ouest. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1971.