E06908
Documentary texts - Letters
Canonical and legal texts
Exemption of Pope Honorius I for Bobbio ('Si semper sunt concedenda', JE 2017/JH 3239)
Extract:
Petis nos igitur, ut monasterio Sanctorum Petri et Pauli in Ebobio constituto, quo praeesse dinosceris, privilegia Sedis apostolicae largiamur, quatenus sub iurisdictione sanctae nostrae, cui a Deo auctore praesedemus, Ecclesiae constitutum nullius ecclesiae iurisdictionibus submitatur.
'And so you ask us to grant privileges of the Apostolic See to the monastery of Saints Peter and Paul founded in Bobbio, over which you are known to preside, so that it be established under the jurisdiction of our Holy Church, over which we preside through the agency of God, and that it be subject to the jurisdictions of no other church.'
Text: Cipolla 1918, 102.
Translation: Wood and O’Hara 2017, 310.
Cult building - monastic
Places Named after SaintMonastery
Non Liturgical ActivityAwarding privileges to cult centres
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - abbots
Ecclesiastics - Popes
Source
This exemption document is dated 11 June 628. It survives in a copy dating from the 9th/10th century (Cipolla 1918, 100).Discussion
This document placed Bobbio directly under the jurisdiction of the pope, and exempted it from the power of any other bishop. According to Jonas of Bobbio it was sought by the abbot, Bertulf, in order to thwart attempts by Bobbio's local bishop to gain control of the monastery. Jonas travelled to Rome with Bertulf to obtain the exemption, and describes the journey in his Life of Columbanus (2.23; O'Hara and Wood, 2017, pp.229-30).Bibliography
Edition:Cipolla, C., Codice diplomatico del monastero di S. Colombano di Bobbio fino all'anno MCCVIII (Rome, 1918), vol. 1, 102-103.
Translation:
O'Hara, A., and Wood, I.N., Jonas of Bobbio: Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé and Life of Vedast (Translated Texts for Historians 64; Liverpool, 2017).
Frances Trzeciak
21/09/2022
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00008 | Paul, the Apostle | Paulus | Certain | S00036 | Peter, the Apostle | Petrus | Certain |
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