Rothad of Soissons (died 869) was Bishop of Soissons. In a conflict of authority with Hincmar of Reims, he was deposed as bishop in 862/3, by the Synod of Soissons. The issue was whether Rothad, suffragan bishop to Hincmar, had the legal right to deprive a priest.[1]
Rothad was restored in 865 by Pope Nicholas I, through the papal legate Arsenius, Bishop of Orta.[2] The hearing in Rome of his case has been cited as the first judicial use of the False Decretals[3]
Notes
- ^ History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073. | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- ^ "Hincmar". NNDB. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
- ^ Boudinhon, Auguste (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 916.
Sources
- Fisquet, Honoré (1864). La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana). Metropole de Reims. Soissons et Laon (in French). Paris: Etienne Repos. pp. 20–24.
- Sainte-Marthe, Denis de (1751). Gallia christiana in provincia ecclesiasticas distributa (in Latin). Tomus nonus (9). Paris: Typographia Regia. pp. 340–343.
External links
- Ernst Pulsfort (1994). "Rothad, Bischof von Soissons". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 8. Herzberg: Bautz. col. 756. ISBN 3-88309-053-0.