Arelatense / Arles
Provincial Council in Arles; 524
The Council of Arles assembled in Ostrogothic Provence in 524 under the supervision of the metropolitan bishop Caesarius of Arles, concluding its business on June 6. The meeting was timed to coincide with the dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary. Fourteen bishops and four presbyters were in attendance, several of them from civitates previously under Burgundian rule.The Council of Arles assembled in Ostrogothic Provence in 524 under the supervision of the metropolitan bishop Caesarius of Arles, concluding its business on June 6. The meeting was timed to coincide with the dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary. Fourteen bishops and four presbyters were in attendance, several of them from civitates previously under Burgundian rule.
The surviving acta consist of four canons. The first three canons all address qualifications for episcopal and clerical ordination, with cc. 3-4 derivative of rules promulgated at the Burgundian Council of Epaone (517). Canon four establishes that clerics who flee from their diocese are still subject solely to the jurisdictional supervision of their diocesan bishop.
The canons were included in more than half-a-dozen early medieval Gallic canonical collectiones, and also were incorporated into the Iberian Hispana. Subsequently, cc. 1 and 3 were included by Burchard of Worms and Ivo of Chartres in their respective Decreta. Ivo also included cc. 3 and 4 in the Tripartita, as did Gratian in his Decretrum.
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QQ: Maassen, Concilia aevi Merovingici, 35-39; de Clercq, Concilia Galliae, 42-46; Gaudemet/Basdevant-Gaudemet, Les canons des conciles mérovingiens, vol. 1, 136-143.
Lit: Hefele – Leclerq II/2, 1060-1062; Maassen, Geschichte der Quellen, vol. 1, 205-206; Pontal, Synoden im Merowingerreich, 52-53; Halfond, The Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768, 224; A. Malory, Saint Césaire, évêque d'Arles: 503-543, Paris 1894, 135-136; W. Klingshirn, Caesarius of Arles: The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul, Cambridge 1994, 137-139.
Gregory Halfond
Dezember 2025
Empfohlene Zitierweise:
Halfond, Gregory, "Arelatense / Arles: Provincial Council in Arles; 524", in: Lexikon der Konzilien [Online-Version], Dezember 2025; URL: https://www.konziliengeschichte.org/site/de/publikationen/lexikon/database/661.html
