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unusual facts about Theodore Balsamon


Theodore Balsamon

Balsamon also compiled a collection of ecclesiastical constitutions (Syntagma) and wrote other works, many of which concern the ongoing debate between the Eastern and Western Churches following the schism of 1054.


John Scholasticus

Balsamon cites this without naming the author, in his notes on the first canon of the Trullan council of Constantinople.

Protopope

So Theodore Balsamon (twelfth century): "It is forbidden by the canons that there should be bishops in small towns and villages, and because of this they ordain for these priests who are protopopes and chorepiscopi" (Syntagma, III, 142).


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