Requirements for Becoming and Remaining a Pastor: an Impression From the Late Medieval Synodal Statutes of the Diocese of Cambrai, 1308-1500
C.M.A Caspers
of these sources and their significance for the history pastoral care (section 1). After having situated ecclesiastical religious life southern Low Countries in its context Western Christianity 2), conditions to become remain a pastor will be discussed 3). Not specific tasks care, which large extent involved administration Sacraments, questioned, but profile that every had fulfil order not suspended or excommunicated questioned. This restriction implicates focus on what statute books normally falls under headings 'ordination' (De ordinibus) 'priestly con duct' vita et honestate clericorum). The survey requirements mentioned two allows us trace interpret changes took place course fourteenth fifteenth centuries. More precisely, have successive bishops done, by means synodal statutes, maintain improve quality pas toral 4)? Eventually, some conclusions made comparison with situation middle sixteenth cen tury 5).
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