medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Jon Cannon <[log in to unmask]>
> I think 19 is the better count. St John's Chester was indeed a major
collegiate church in the patronage of the bishop of Coventry & Lichfield, the
effective seat of the Archdeacon of Chester, and a key link in the bishop's
power in the NW part of the diocese, but after the C12, as far as I can see,
was only rarely called a cathedral....
>Various other collegiate churches, most famously Ripon, Southwell and
Beverley, of course had a 'special relationship' with the bishop's power and
status in corners of hte diocese without being cathedrals (as Chester briefly
undoubtedly was).
the Bizarre Angleish system never fails to confound me.
in any Normal, Respectable country, there would be only one Bishop per
diocese, and that guy would have had his _cathedra_ in only one church in his
diocese, and that church would, perforce, be the (only) Cathedral of the
diocese.
just as a point of interest, however, i have to say that i don't recall ever
having seen any middlevil document which speaks of the "cathedral" of Chartres
--it's always styled "the church of St. Mary of Chartres" (ecclesia sancti
mariae carnotensi, or somesuchlike).
i've also never come across any mention at all of the bishop's _cathedra_
there (or, for that matter, anywhere else) --though it may well appear in the
cathedral's Ordinary.
Jim?
c
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