Council of Rome explained

The Council of Rome was a synod which took place in Rome in AD 382, under the leadership of Pope Damasus I, the then-Bishop of Rome. The only surviving conciliar pronouncement may be the Latin: [[Gelasian Decree|Decretum Gelasianum]] that contains a canon of Scripture, which was issued by the Council of Rome under Pope Damasus in 382, and which is identical with the list given at the Council of Trent.^[1] Although Lamentations was listed separately from Jeremiah by the council, Catholic apologists such as Catholic Answers argue that Baruch was included in Jeremiah.^[2] However, Jerome, did not translate it in his Vulgate.^[3]

Occasion

The previous year, the Emperor Theodosius I had appointed the candidate Nectarius as Archbishop of Constantinople. The bishops of the West opposed the election result and asked for a common synod of East and West to settle the succession of the see of Constantinople, and so the Emperor Theodosius, soon after the close of the First Council of Constantinople in 381, summoned the Imperial bishops to a fresh synod at Constantinople; nearly all of the same bishops who had attended the earlier synod re-assembled in the early summer of 382. On arrival they received a letter from the synod of Milan, inviting them to a great general council at Rome; they indicated that they must remain where they were, because they had not made any preparations for such long a journey; however, they sent three - Syriacus, Eusebius, and Priscian - with a joint synodal letter to Pope Damasus, Ambrose, archbishop of Milan, and the other bishops assembled in the council at Rome.^[4]

Decree

Jerome mentioned the synod twice, but only in passing.^[5]

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states:

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church also notes that "according to E. von Dobschütz, the Gelasian Decree is not a Papal work at all, but a private compilation which was composed in Italy (but not at Rome) in the early 6th cent. Other scholars, while accepting this date, think it originated in Gaul".

Catholic apologist and historian William Jurgens writes:^[6]

Further reading

• Geoffrey Mark Hahneman, The Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 158−161.

External links

• The "Damasine List"

Notes and References

1. Book: The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2005-01-01. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-280290-3. Cross. F. L.. 3. 282. en. canon of Scripture. 10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001. Livingstone. E. A..
2. https://www.catholic.com/qa/baruch-is-there-just-sometimes-as-part-of-jeremiah
3. Book: Jérôme : Préfaces aux livres de la Bible. Éditions du Cerf. 2017. 978-2-204-12618-2. Canellis. Aline. Abbeville. 216–7. fr. Jerome : Preface to the books of the Bible. Introduction : Du travail de Jérôme à la Vulgate. Introduction: From Jerome's work to the Vulgate.
4. Sinclair, W. M. (1911). "Nectarius, archbp. of Constantinople". In Wace, Henry; Piercy, William C. (eds.). Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (3rd ed.). London: John Murray.
5. Book: Hahneman, Geoffrey Mark . The Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon . 1992 . Clarendon Press . 978-0-19-826341-8 . 158 . en.
6. Book: Jurgens, William . The Faith of the Early Fathers . 1970 . Liturgical Press . 978-0-8146-0432-8 . 404 . en.