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Dear Christopher,
There is a long and learned answer but here's the short and sweet one.
The oldest extant source that I know of is an ordo for celebrating a Sens provincial council, saec. XIV, contained in London, British Library, MS. Egerton 931. Martene's edition of this text is the only one I know of, though just where he found it is unclear. He printed it together with the ordo for a Sens diocesan synod, designating the pair as "Ordo IX" among his conciliar ordines; I find it convenient to distinguish the provincial one as "Ordo IXA," the diocesan one as "IXB." This should enable you to find it in any of the 3 editions of Martene's *De antiquis Ecclesiae ritibus.*
For more references, consult Martimort's study of Martene's sources in *Studi e testi* 279 (1978). Also, there is a copy of the text in Sens, Bibl. Mun., MS. 11 (made 1671 from a MS saec. XIV): see Leroquais, *Les pontificaux,* no. 201. Further references in Kay, *Pontificalia,* available on the web at the University of Kansas "ScholarWorks" site.
The text is abundantly clear that Chartres is the dean of the province's bishops; it also gives the precise seating order etc. etc.
Enjoy.
Richard
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From: James Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
> This is very interesting Richard.
indeed it is.
and many thanks, Richard.
>I haven't had time to check it yet,
nor have i --still trying to run down a 1702 ed. of Martene.
not here, apparently
http://tinyurl.com/b3w2p99
(Hathitrust.org link --probably requires a subscription)
>but the programme of stained glass in the clerestory windows of the
>east end
of Reims Cathedral represent all the suffagan bishoprics in the archdiocese by means of an image of their bishop accompanied by an image of the facade of their cathedral, with Reims in the axial position.
are not all those windows replacements after the spiffy redecoration of the cathedral that was undertaken during the First Collective Acute Psychotic Episode, Jim?
were there also "portraits" of the bishops in the abbey of St. Remi (or am i hopelessly hallucinating).
in the cathedral glass there was (or is) apparently a "portrait" of Archbishop Henry of France (died c. 1175).
i have forgotten --if i ever knew-- why that later 12th c. bishop would have been included in the 13th c. glass.
or was he at St. Remi?
c
(Confused in Bloomington)
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> Actually, Christopher, many French provinces had a dean of the
> bishops, at
least in the 13th century, when my research (ca. 1959) stopped. The basis was most likely the seating order in a provincial council, plus the chapter as the canonistic model of corporate structure. Anyway, here are some documented cases.
> Bishop of Clermont, dean of Bourges province. Ref. Mansi
24:1117-19. Also Lacger in Rev. hist. eccl. 16 (1930).
> Bishop of Soissons, dean of Reims province. Ref. Varin,
> Archives
admin., 1:565, 600.
> And (glory be!) bishop of Chartres, dean of Sens. Ref.
> Martene,
Antiq. Rit., 3 (1702 edn), p. 417. Also Mansi, 24:334; cf. 337-338.
> By now somebody has no doubt done an exhaustive study of all
> this,
or should.
> Richard Kay
>
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> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > On 02/12/13, Christopher Crockett wrote:
>
> > "i've never come across this term/office "dean of the province" in
> > France. i
> assume that it was a peculiarly Western Fringe phenomenon? was this "dean"
> --who apparently also happened to be a bishop himself-- some kind of
"vice-archbishop" for the province? what were his duties? when was this odd practice established? and, why for? all information about these or any other of the Bizarre Idiosyncrasies of the Western Fringe is always welcome to the Unenlightened."
>
>
> > Not entirely a "peculiarly Western Fringe phenomenon", unless by
> > "Western
> Fringe" brother Crockett refers not only -- as is his wont -- to the
> British
Isles but also to western portions of the German-ruled Imperium Romanum.
>
> well, technically speaking, the western portions of the I.R. would
> have to
be parts of the Eastern Fringe which is the same as the Western Fringe only, you know, different.
>
> i mean, those poor folks out there were so confused that they didn't
> even
know which end of their major churches was the most important one, so they made both ends round just to be sure not to make any mistakes...
>
> they were evidently Belt *and* Suspenders guys.
>
> just like those U.S. corporate moguls who give campaign money to both
> the
Dimmoecan & Repuglickum parties, covering their bets on both Tweedledee & Tweedledumb.
>
> >Traditionally, the bishop of Toul was dean of the ecclesiastical
> >province of
> Trier. See (e.g.) this in the _Journal de la Société d'archéologie et
> du
comité du Musée lorrain_, 11 (1862), at pp. 237-38 (a Google Books
> digitization):
> > http://tinyurl.com/bfxpcm6
>
> > Here the dignity of dean of the ecclesiastical province seems to
> > have been
> largely honorary, giving the incumbent the duties of consecrating
archbishops of Trier and of consecrating other bishops of the province when the archbishop was unable to do so.
>
>
> "largely honorary"?
>
> seems to me that "le droit d'exercer certaines fonctions du
> métropolitain
en cas d'empechement ou absence de cet archeveque" was a bit more than "honorary"
> --he either had the right to exercise these certain functions or he didn't.
> and, if he did, then, well, he did, exercise those functions.
>
> consecrating one's Archbishop was perhaps an "honor," but it was
> certainly
more than merely "honorary."
>
> i suppose that such an arrangement --having a kind of "vice-archbishop"
makes a degree of sense (after all, *some*body had to consecrate the new archbishop), and i have seen some references to suffragan bishops exercising some functions (like the dedication of a church), filling in for the Archbishop.
>
> but i've never seen a suffragan bishop specifically referred to as
> being the
"dean" of a province.
>
> which bishop was the "dean" of the Province of Sens?
>
> i have no idea.
>
> maybe it's mentioned somewhere in the Gallia Christiana vols. for that
province, but i certainly have no memory of having seen a reference to such a title.
>
> i wonder if there is any entry in DuCange for "vice-[achi]episcopus"
> or
somesuchlike term.
>
> or, for that matter, a section in his "diaconus" entry which covers
> this
Fringe usage, West or East.
>
> c
>
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