Dear Colleagues,
I've been working on a paper concerning fifteenth-century Cistercian masters
of theology and noticed that while quite a few of them received abbacies,
very few of them were made bishops (actually, only one). Is anyone aware of
any statutes from that period that would deny Cistercian monks the
episcopacy? or would limit their reception of benefices?
Thank you.
Thomas Sullivan, OSB
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