>Jim Bugslag wrote:
>" Perhaps this is a question that will be answered in the Supple
>Doctor's (hopefully) promised new series, but it is my understanding
>that Constantinople was only founded in 330. Certainly, this was
>under direct imperial sponsorship, but was there a Patriarch of
>Constantinople before this? Did he, for instance, attend the council
>of Nicaea in 325? And if this was a new position, was he
>*immediately* the most senior, or did his importance grow with that
>of the new eastern capital?"
>
>Wasn't Byzantium a Greek city that was nearly a thousand years old when
>Constantine moved his capital there and renamed it?
>
>pat sloane
Pat:
While the thousand year 'rep.' is an unattested reflection of a
need for sacred legitimation, the city... small, and relatively
unimportant... but quite well placed... does, as I understand the sources,
seem to have documented reference for about four or five hundred years
prior to its name change.
In the shifting contours of an ever-present debate over not only antiquity,
but the content and qaulity of that antiquity, in a theological rhetoric in
which the argument for, excuse the cross-reference,the 'real presence' of
typological prefiguration became critical,... the city's historical past
grew and grew...and grew.
Josef Gulka
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