Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae

Pius Bonifacius Gams · 1873 · Latin West · public-domain-original

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The standard fasti of the Latin West: every see in communion with Rome, its bishops in order with a year for most of them, from the beginning to 1873, printed as a table rather than a narrative. HE PRINTS A NUMBER ONLY AT EVERY TENTH BISHOP, in the form 20. Patiens; the ones between are counted from the nearest printed decade marker. Duchesne Fastes episcopaux (1894-1915) was written to correct Gams for Gaul and did; his early Gallic entries repeat local diocesan claims uncritically. AND HE PRINTS NO EVIDENCE - a bare year, no witness, no argument. HIS OWN COUNT IS NOT PERFECTLY CONSISTENT: in the Lyon list one italic set-aside line (Eucherius II. expungend. esse videtur) has to occupy a slot for his printed 30 to land on Aetherius, while three parenthesised entries lower down plainly do not. Nothing for the East by construction: Armenia in his index is the Byzantine provinces Armenia I and II taken out of Le Quien, and Armeni uniti is the Armenian Catholic patriarchate from c. 1740 - the Catholicos of All Armenians is not in him.