Meurin, Bishop, 115

Meyer, Guilelmus, 144, 510-513
Milan, Church of: the date of its bishop
becoming a metropolitan, 148, 151,
434, 485; in the time of S. Ambrose
and his immediate successors it shared
with the Roman Church the hege-
mony of the West, 540; other refer-
ences to, 58, 113

Milan, Councils of: (A.D. 345), 233,

234, 247; (A.D. 355), 484; (May or
June, 381), 344-346, 529-538, 541;
(December, 381), 204, 380, 531-539,
541; (April, 382), 204, 380, 539,
542

Mileum, Council of (A.D. 416), 206, 207
Miltiades, S., Pope, 152

Misenus, Bishop of Cumae, 378, 383,
384, 396, 410, 416

Missal, Roman, its interpretation of
"the rock," 99

Moberly, Bishop, of Salisbury, on
"Feed My sheep," 119

Möhler, Joannes Adamus: on the origin
of metropolitans, 7; other references
to, 13, 430

Mommsen, Theodor, 30, 287, 361, 414,
441, 520

Mongus, Peter. See Peter Mongus
Montalembert, M. de, on the pagan
corruption which invaded the Church
in the fourth century, 131-133
Montfaucon, Dom, O.S.B., 159, 260,
263, 293, 363, 370, 496, 511
Month, The, 350
Montreuil, 173

Morcelli, S. J., 205, 207-209
Morin, Dom Germain, O.S.B., 520
Moschus, John, 393
Mozley, Dr. J. B., 433

Murray, Dr., of Maynooth, on the
promise to S. Peter, 98

Najrân, The 3911 Martyrs of, 389, 394,
396

Natalis Alexander, O. P., 74, 75, 77,
141, 378, 422, 423, 430, 493, 494
Natalis, Bishop of Oëa, 456
Neale, Dr., 6, 332, 391, 418, 461
Nectarius, Bishop of Avignon, 201
Nectarius, Bishop of Constantinople,
165, 335, 349, 354, 380, 505, 531,
534-536, 538-541

Neoterius, prefect of the praetorium of
Italy, 527

Nepotianus, a priest, 134
Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople,

the heresiarch, 376, 399, 411, 412,
419, 428, 479
Newman, Cardinal: on the meaning of
convenire ad, 25; describes the state
of Christendom in 360 and 361...239;
on the Church of Alexandria as "the

arbiter of doctrine" in the time of
Julian, 265; on the heresy of Mar.
cellus of Ancyra, 480, 481; other
references to, 28, 68, 137, 138, 159,
216, 236, 237, 247, 255, 258, 263,
280, 281, 338, 351, 429, 437, 453,
506, 508

Nicaea, First Council of (A.D. 325),
first Ecumenical: was convoked by
the Emperor, 137, 169, 477-480; its
president was Hosius, 137; Hosius
presided at, not as papal legate,
169-172; its fifth canon, 139, 140,
190, 523; set the seal of its approval
on that system of Church government
for which the Church of England con-
tends, 140; its sixth canon, 138, 139,
382, 480; recognizes no primacy of
ecumenical jurisdiction in Roman
Church, 139; dispute as to whether
Sardican canons are to be attributed
to, 184-193; correct copies of canons
of, sent in 419 to Carthage, 188; other
references to, 17, 62, 130, 137-140,
141, 144, 153, 166, 167, 174, 192,
204, 235, 236, 239, 255, 260, 268,
272, 273, 279, 291, 292, 295, 296,
299, 300, 317, 334, 350, 351, 355-
361, 376, 381, 416, 426, 427, 430,
431, 434, 438, 453, 497, 498
Nicaea, Second Council of (A.D. 787),
251, 267, 269

Nicephorus, acolyte, 5

Nicephorus Callisti, the Church his-
torian, 385, 437

Nicholas de Lyra, 442

Nicholas I., Pope, 175, 177, 225, 437,

500

Nicole, Pierre, on the excommunication
of Acacius, 385, 386

Nieuwenhuisen, Michael van, Arch-
bishop of Utrecht, 332

Novatian, an anti-pope, 51, 56, 467;
passages about, in S.Cyprian's letters,
explained, 78-85

Novatus or Navatus, Bishop of Sitifis,
185

Octarianus, S., of Como, 405
Oehler, Franciscus, 39

Onesimus, appointed by Acacius of
Caesarea to the see of Nicomedia,
246
Optatus, an African bishop, probably
of the Proconsular province, 207, 210
Optatus, S., of Mileum, 29, 100, 465
Optimus, Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia,
335
Origen, 482

Orsi, Cardinal, description of second
Ecumenical Council by, 165
Otreius, Bishop of Melitene, 335

Pagi, Father, 145, 170, 395, 422, 423,
437, 510, 525
Palafox, Juan de, 332

Palatinus, Bishop of Bosa or Bossa, 206,
207

Palladius, Monophysite Patriarch of
Antioch (A.D. 488-498), 385, 387
Palmer, Sir W., 433

Palmieri, Dominico, S.J., 222
Pantaleon, S., and his eight companions,
389, 395

Paschal controversy, 14-19, 224, 225,
436-438

Paschasinus, Bishop of Lilybaeum, chief
papal legate at Chalcedon, 168, 169,

202

Paschasius, an agent of the anti-pope
Ursinus, 520
Passeratius, 39

Paternus, Bishop of Perigueux, 258
Patroclus, Bishop of Arles, 152
Paul, S., the Apostle: an apostolic
founder of the Roman Church, 12,
13, 19, 21, 37, 44; martyred at
Rome, 12, 13; an apostolic founder
of the Church of Ephesus, 22; was
never Bishop of Rome, 40; his work
ignored by the Clementine romance,
42, 43; his real work at Rome, 43,
44; chronology of his life, 43;
covertly attacked in the Clementine
romance, 48; comparison of, with S.
Peter, 92; puts S. James before S.
Peter, when enumerating the pillar-
apostles, 111, 112; probably recog-
nizes S. Peter's primacy of order in
I Cor. ix. 5, 111; his rebuke of S.
Peter at Antioch, 116; his tone of
independence, 116

Paul, Patriarch of Alexandria, 402
Paul of Samosata, Bishop of Antioch, a
heresiarch, 68, 255, 275-277, 279,
280, 282, 380, 481
Paulianists, 453

Paulinus, the biographer of S. Ambrose,
253

Paulinus, Eustathian bishop of Antioch;
consecrated by the firebrand, Lucifer,
159, 264, 352; acknowledged in 375
by Damasus as the true Bishop of
Antioch, 160; rejected by S. Basil
and the Eastern saints, 160; used
the formula of the One Hypostasis,
161; admitted in 346 to the com-
munion of S. Athanasius, 234; from
September 362 to September 363,
probably not in communion with S.
Athanasius, 234, 288-290; generally
regarded in the East as a schismatic,
318; his compact with S. Meletius,
340, 346, 347; date of his death, 367;
other references to, 158, 162, 165,
176, 228, 247, 249, 250, 252, 256,

257, 260, 261, 263, 288-290, 293,
297, 299, 301, 303, 304, 306, 309-
326, 329, 330, 332-334, 337-339,
341, 342, 344, 348, 353, 362, 363,
365, 368-370, 406, 496-498, 500-
505, 508, 522, 537, 539, 541
Paulinus, S., of Nola, 48
Paulinus, Bishop of Tyre, 227
Pearson, Bishop, 70, 440, 442, 458, 471
Pelagius, the heresiarch, 184, 491
Pelagius, S., of Laodicea in Syria, 160,
165, 246, 247, 250, 291, 292, 301,
329, 330, 335, 498
Pelagius I., Pope, 176, 484
Pelagius II., Pope, 172
Pelham, Professor, 30, 441
Pentadius, Bishop of Carpis, 208
Perrone, Joannes, S.J., 25, 33, 98, 99,
216, 382

Petavius, Dionysius, S.J., 254, 255, 280,
282, 429, 430, 442, 443, 480
Peter, S., the Apostle: an apostolic
founder of the Roman Church, 12,
13, 19, 21, 37, 44; martyred at Rome,
12, 13; was never Bishop of Rome,
36-49; the theory that he was Bishop
of Rome, vital to papalists, 36; that
theory propagated by the Clementine
romance, 42, 47; spurious epistle of,
to S. James, 42; origin of the ex-
pression, see of Peter," 44; as the
first-chosen apostle, a fitting symbol
of the unity of the Church Militant,
84-88, 92, 101-103, 470, 471; the
nature of his primacy, 86; our Lord's
words to, recorded in S. Matt. xvi.
18, 19, convey a promise, not a gift,
88; bishops are successors of, 90, 94,
123, 124; promise made by our Lord
to, at Caesarea Philippi, discussed,
97-109; his precedence in confession
rewarded by priority in designation,
108; his leadership in the work of
founding the Church, 108, 109; his
supposed primacy of jurisdiction over
the other apostles disproved by
Scripture, 110-116; was sent to
Samaria by his brother-apostles, 110,
III; was "recognized as a pillar,'
III, 112; his name placed between
the names of S. James and S. John,
111-113; his speech at the Council
of Jerusalem, 113, 114; obscure
allusion in Pet. v. 13 to his con-
nexion with Rome, 116; meaning of
Christ's pastoral charge to, 117-128;
the years of, 384, 444; in what sense
he is styled unitas in multis" by S.
Augustine, 472-473; teaching of
Anglican divines about, 473-477
Peter I., S., Bishop of Alexandria,

179

Peter II., Bishop of Alexandria, 160,

306, 319, 321, 325, 326, 335-338,
340, 347, 529-531, 533, 534, 541
Peter, Monophysite Metropolitan of
Apamea, 392, 418, 421
Peter, Cardinal, 212

Peter Chrysologus, S., Bishop of
Ravenna, 148

Peter the Fuller, Monophysite Patriarch
of Antioch (A.D. 471-488), 384, 410-
412, 416, 417, 419

Peter Mongus, Monophysite Patriarch

of Alexandria (A.D. 477-490), 377-
379, 381-385, 399, 403, 410, 411,
414, 416, 419

Peter, S., Bishop of Sebaste, 165, 238,
318

Peters, Dr., 45I

Petronius, a priest, 317

Peyron, Amadeus, 500

Philagrius, Prefect of Egypt, 233
Philemon, a Roman priest, 70, 461
Philip, Emperor, 55, 450

Philip, legate in 419 at Carthage, and
in 431 at Ephesus, 168, 182, 184, 185
Philippopolis, Council of (A.D. 343),
185, 230-233, 238
Phillips, Mr. Sadler, 25
Philomelium, Church of, 16
Philostorgius, an Arian historian, 227,
242, 246

Philoxenus, one of S. Julius' legates at
Sardica, 171

Photinus, Bishop of Sirmium, a heresi-
arch, 233, 234, 275, 279, 280, 325
Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople,
173, 176, 177, 295

Pitra, Cardinal, 391, 404, 432
Pius I., S., Pope, 15, 37, 38
Pius VII., Pope, 28

Pius IX., Pope, 3, 34, 115, 251, 371,
43T, 433

Polycarp, S., Bishop of Smyrna, 10,

15, 21, 23, 32, 35, 40, 45
Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus, 15-18,
225

Pompeianus, an Antiochene, the father
of Evagrius, 304
Pompeius, Bishop of Sabrata, 5, 64,
456, 466

Pontius, S., the biographer of S.
Cyprian, 70
Pope, jurisdiction of the, as defined by
Vatican Council, 3, 4; had in early
times primacy of honour and in-
fluence, 14; decision of, in a matter
outside his jurisdiction, had no bind-
ing force, 61; was practically bishop
of bishops in Italy, 65; his primacy
regarded by Bellarmine as "the
principal matter of Christianity,"
98; in the fourth and fifth centuries
was the only metropolitan in the
suburbicarian regions, 139, 148;

powers of, enlarged by the legisla-
tion of Valentinian I. and Gratian,
151, 153, 154; that legislation, so
far as it was received, made the
popes to be Patriarchs over the
West, 154, 155; was spokesman of
West in dealing with East, 155; how
regarded by S. Basil, 164, 165; was
able to enforce his authority by the
help of the civil magistrates, 178;
was left free by the imperial con-
stitutions to make and enforce his
own law, 180; the nature and origin
of his various kinds of power, 180,
181; was not the necessary centre of
communion, 224-406; may be called
"head" in two senses, 221. See also

under Rome, Church of
Possidius, S., Bishop of Calama, 491
Potitus, a Vicar of Rome, 517
Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury: on

S. Peter's primacy, 474, 475; other
reference to, 476

Praetextatus, an African bishop, of the
Proconsular province, 210
Praetextatus, Vettius Agorius, 133, 136,
517, 527

Primasius, Bishop of Adrumetum, 442
Principalitas, meaning of, 29-32, 51,
102, 441-442

Principius, prefect of the praetorium of
Italy, 527

Priscillian, the heresiarch, 485

Pritannius, Bishop of Trier, 483. See
also Britonius

Privatus, of Lambesis, a bishop excom-
municated for heresy, 51, 447, 448,
449, 461

Probus, Sextus Petronius, prefect of
the praetorium of Italy, 526, 527
Proclus, S., Bishop of Constantinople,
354

Proculus, Bishop of Marseilles: treated
Pope Zosimus' summons with con-
tempt, 152; other references to, 149,
196

Prophets, the second degree in the
ministry in the apostolic age, 106,
107

Prosper, S., of Aquitaine, 331
Protasius, Bishop of Milan, 434
Proterius, S., Bishop of Alexandria,
428

Protogenes, Bishop of Sardica, 171
Pseudo-Isidorian decretals, 48, 181
Pulcheria, Empress, 167
Puppianus, Florentius, 93
Pusey, Dr., 62, 108, 440, 476

Quae gesta sunt inter Liberium et
Felicem episcopos, the Ursinian preface
to the Luciferian Libellus precum,
283, 286, 517

Refutatio Hypocrisis Meletii, 291, 293,
496

Reparatus, Bishop of Carthage, excom-
municated Pope Vigilius, 404
Reserve, The principle of, thoroughly
understood by the primitive saints,
255

Revue Biblique, 28, 43

Revue d'histoire et de littérature re-
ligieuses, 425, 470

Revue des questions historiques, 2, 7, 445
Rhodon, 32

Richard of S. Victor, 442

Richardson, Mr. attempts a reply to
the Fathers of Chalcedon, 13; his
private canonization of Paulinus of
Antioch, 367; other references to,
223, 389

Rigault, Nicolas, 67

Rivington, Dr. Luke: his translation

of the Irenaean passage about the
Roman see, 23, 24; speaks of "Saint
Liberius" and "Saint Lucifer," 265;
attributes the legislation of the Coun-
cil of Alexandria in 362 to Liberius,
266; considers that "the whole case
of S. Meletius suggests the 'Roman
theory of Church government as in
full working order," 353; his mis-
taken notion about diptychs, 424;
thinks that "the strictly papal
method of government " is "taken for
granted by S. Cyprian,” 451; other
references to, xxviii., 29, 38, 45, 47,
48, 73, 74, 86, 94, 115, 153 166, 172,
177, 192, 204-206, 208, 211, 220,
247, 249, 254, 256, 257, 269, 286,
292-294, 306, 319, 322, 324, 325,
342, 345, 348, 349, 351, 358, 373,
375, 409, 414, 417, 423, 435, 436,
446, 448, 449, 451, 452-454, 456-
458, 460, 462-464, 465, 467-469,
470, 473, 477, 478, 480, 487, 490,
493-496, 504, 508, 509, 522, 533,
540

Robertson, Dr. Archibald, 32, 234,

236, 238, 280, 281, 288, 299, 440,
481, 497, 498, 510
"Rock," The, of the Church: patristic
interpretations of, 99-105; the com-
monest and the oldest opinion is that
S. Peter is the, 99; the Fathers hardly
ever connect the Roman see with, 99–
IOI; the true interpretation of, 105–
109

Rogatianus, a Carthaginian deacon,
463

Rogers, Mr. Alfred, 269

Rohrbacher, The Abbé, 334

Romanus, S., the Melodist, 388, 391
Rome, Church of: the organization of
the local, 5; extent of province de-
pending on, 8, 14, 139, 434, 451;
centralizing tendency in, 8; Bishop
of, took precedence over other
bishops, 9; reason of this precedence,
12, 13, 36; founded by S. Peter and
S. Paul, 12; scene of the martyrdom
of those apostles, 12; possessed their
sacred relics, 13; only apostolic see
in the West, 13, 178; had a primacy
of honour and influence, but not of
jurisdiction, 14; its witness against
Gnostics, 21; why S. Irenaeus appeals
primarily to its witness, 22, 33;
special advantages in handing on the
faith possessed by, 27, 28, 33; its
potentior principalitas, 31-33; con-
sulted more frequently than other
apostolic sees, 32; received intelli-
gence from all parts of the Church,
32; representatives of other churches
come to, and influence, 32; its pri-
macy attributed by some writers to
S. Peter's supposed Roman episco-
pate, 36; sequence of early bishops
of, 45; mother-church of greater
part of the West, 51, 52, 82; was not
regarded by S. Cyprian as "the root,
the source, and the matrix of Catholic
unity," 79-85, 464-469; received
rich donations from the Emperors
and others in the fourth and follow-
ing centuries, 133; the greater part
of the clergy of, perjured themselves
in the time of Liberius, 135; Coun-
cil of Nicaea silent about appeals to,
140; a quasi-appeal to, permitted by
Council of Sardica, 142, 143; re-
garded in early times as the head of
the West, 155, 451; from early
times was consulted by Western
churches, 178; appeals to, forbidden
by African Church, 189, 192, 193,
448-450, 490-493; history of, from
358 to 363, very little known, 271;
leadership of, is not a vital element
in the Church's constitution, 274; in