Melburnense / Melbourne

I Provincial Council; 1907 (17th - 24th November)

Archbishop Thomas Carr of Melbourne and his three suffragan bishops (Stephen Reville OSA [Sandhurst], James Francis Corbett [Sale], Joseph Higgins [Ballarat]) held a council in Melbourne during 17-24 November 1907, assisted by twenty-three priests. They legislated 112 decrees (51 dealing with the sacraments), making specific to the province of Melbourne the national legislation of 1885-1895-1905. The aim was to provide one harmonious body of provincial laws in place of divergent decrees from diocesan synods in the most geographically compact of the Australian provinces where there was easy interaction between dioceses. A projected provincial council for 1910 was never eventuated.

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QQ: Acta et decreta Synodi provincialis apud Melbourne 1907; Pastoral Letter of the Province of Melbourne.

Lit.: Waters, Legislation; Waters, Konzilien.

Waters, Ian Benjamin

März 2019

Empfohlene Zitierweise:

Waters, Ian Benjamin, “I Provincial Council; 1907 (17th - 24th November)“ in: Lexikon der Konzilien [Online-Version], März 2019; URL: http://www.konziliengeschichte.org/site/de/publikationen/lexikon/database/3883.html