Meletius of Lycopolis and Episcopal Succession in Egypt
The schismatic “Church of the martyrs” which arose in Egypt after the last persecution possessed, at the time of Nicaea, twenty-eight bishops besides its founder Meletius. Nothing survives to tell us with what rites these men were made bishops. But the schism was so nationalist in character that it...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1955
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1955, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 227-237 |
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