Patriarchal Election
Definition
Photius’s defence that the local rules cited against his elevation from the laity were not confirmed by an Ecumenical Council and therefore not binding, with precedents of Tarasius, Nicephorus, Nectarius and Ambrose.
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Canonicity Of Election To The Episcopate
Biblical References
- Matthew 16:19 (cited as Matt 16.19) — I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.” Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees ca
- John 15:26 (cited as Jn 15.26) — When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me, “I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. He takes away every branch tha