This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ..."Saxony," by which he calls East Anglia, as an explanation. The modern East Anglian would reject the explanation that Dunwich was hopelessly out of the world, and its bishop was out of sight and out of mind. However that may have been, Wini, too, passed him over. He desired to have the canonical number ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ..."Saxony," by which he calls East Anglia, as an explanation. The modern East Anglian would reject the explanation that Dunwich was hopelessly out of the world, and its bishop was out of sight and out of mind. However that may have been, Wini, too, passed him over. He desired to have the canonical number of three consecrating bishops, and he called two British bishops to be partakers in the consecration, un-orthodox in their Easter. These were the facts. What was the flaw which Theodore discovered? Some suggestions can be made. If Wini consecrated Ceadda in his capacity of Bishop of the West Saxons, we must look beyond Wini for the flaw. But if he had had time to buy the bishopric of the East Saxons, he was in a technical sense a simoniacal bishop, and it is conceivable that even so early as that ordinations by a simoniacal bishop were regarded by some as invalid. It is significant that when Theodore held the Council of Hertford in 673, he recited in a preamble to the proceedings the names of the bishops present or represented by proxies, and no mention is made of Wini o'r of the East Saxons, though part of Hertford was actually in that kingdom. This may mean that Theodore would not recognise Wini as bishop, but did not feel able to depose him, as he did depose Winfrid of Mercia soon. after for disobedience. On the other hand, political considerations may have accounted for the absence of the East Saxon bishop and king. There remains the fact, carefully mentioned I by Bede, that Wini, not acting alone, but not having any canonically consecrated bishops within reach, took to him, as associates in the consecration1, two bishops of the nation of the Britons, who kept Easter from the 14th to the 20th of the moon, according to their...
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