medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 24/01/2012, Jussi Hanska <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> If I am not totally mistaken (which is known to happen occasionally,
> mind you), archipresbiter or plebanus was the title of the priest of a
> so-called plebs (pieve in Italian), that is, a church that had baptism
> rights. In Italy not all the parishes and their vicars had right to
> baptize children, but they needed to be taken to these pieve churches
> whose vicars were called archpriests. This system was in use still in
> the late fifteenth century, perhaps even later, but I don't know about
> that. In the rest of the Europe it had been abandoned earlier.
That's a bit of an oddity, but still consistent with the meaning
"rural dean" in the sense of the senior by rank of the clergy of a
group of parishes.
John Briggs
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