- Aeneas of Paris
Aeneas of Paris (died
December 27 870 ) wasbishop of Paris from 858 to 870.He is best known as the author of one of the controversial treatises against the Greeks, called forth by the encyclical letters of Photius. His comprehensive "Liber adversus Græcos" [In
D'Achery , "Spicilegum", Paris, i., 1723, 113-148;Mign , "Patrologia Latina ", cxxi. 681-762; cf.MGH , Epist., vi., 1902, p. 171, no. 22.] deals with the procession of theHoly Spirit , themarriage of the clergy ,fasting , the "consignatio infantium ", theclerical tonsure , theRoman primacy , and the elevation ofdeacon s to the see of Rome. He declares that the accusations brought by the Greeks against the Latins are “superfluous questions having more relation to secular matters than to spiritual.”The work is mainly a collection of quotations or “sentences,” from Greek and Latin
Church Fathers , the former translated.ource
* [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01.html?term=Aeneas%20of%20Paris Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia] , public domain text
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