Quiricus (Bishop of Toledo)
- Quiricus (Bishop of Toledo)
Quiricus ( _ca. Quirze) (died January 680) was Bishop of Barcelona from 648 until 667 and Bishop of Toledo thereafter until his death.
While bishop of Barcelona, Quiricus wrote a hymn in honour of Saint Eulalia. The hymn "Barchinon laete Cucufate vernans", in honour of Saint Cucuphas (Cugat), was probably also composed by Quiricus at Barcelona. [Anglès, 497.] At Quiricus' request, Taio, Bishop of Zaragoza, compiled a collection of extracts from the work of Gregory the Great in 653–654, when progress on the compilation was slowed by the revolt of Froia and the invasion of the Basques. [Collins, "Visigothic Spain", 84.] Quiricus was also the dedicatee of Ildefonsus' "De perpetua virginitate".
Quiricus was transferred from Barcelona to the metropolitan see of Toledo in 667. His transferrance was contrary to canon law, but was an early act symbolising the centrality and primacy of Toledo. [Collins, "Visigothic Spain", 100.] In 672, in accordance with the tenth canon of the Eighth Council of Toledo, he anointed the duly elected Wamba after the death of Reccesuinth. [Collins, "Visigothic Spain", 93.]
In 675 Quiricus presided over the Eleventh Council of Toledo. In 681 the ecumenical Third Council of Constantinople repudiated monothelitism and affirmed the docrine of dythelitism, that Christ had two wills. A decision of the council was sent to Quiricus, but he had died by the time it reached Spain.
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*Anglès, Higini. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4631%28194010%2926%3A4%3C494%3AHMCFT6%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 "Hispanic Musical Culture from the 6th to the 14th Century."] "The Musical Quarterly", Vol. 26, No. 4. (Oct., 1940), pp. 494–528.
*Collins, Roger. "Visigothic Spain, 409–711". Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0 631 18185 7.
*Thompson, E. A. "The Goths in Spain". Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
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