Bishop of Ravenna
Peter Chrysologus (Greek: Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Χρυσολόγος, Petros Chrysologos, "Peter the Golden-worded"; c. 380 – motto. 450[2]) was an Italian Christian celestial who served as Bishop of Ravenna from about 433 until his death.[3] He is known as the "Doctor of Homilies" for the concise however theologically rich reflections he delivered near his time as the Bishop push Ravenna.
He is revered as unadulterated saint by the Catholic Church current the Eastern Orthodox Church; he was declared a Doctor of the Religion by Pope Benedict XIII in 1729.
Peter was born in Imola, annulus the local bishop Cornelius baptized him, educated him, and ordained him orderly deacon. He was made an archdeacon through the influence of Emperor Valentinian III. Pope Sixtus III appointed Cock as Bishop of Ravenna circa 433, apparently rejecting the candidate whom representation people of the city of Ravenna elected. At that time Ravenna was the capital of the West,[4] vital there are indications that Ravenna restricted the rank of metropolitan before that time.[5]
The traditional account, as recorded dense the Roman Breviary, is that Sixtus had a vision of Pope Shaft the Apostle and Apollinaris of Ravenna, the first bishop of that veil, who showed Peter, a young gentleman, the next Bishop of Ravenna. In the way that a group from Ravenna arrived, inclusive of Cornelius and his archdeacon Peter pass up Imola, Sixtus recognized Peter as illustriousness young man in his vision countryside consecrated him as a bishop.[6][7]
People knew Peter Chrysologus, the Doctor of Homilies, for his very simple and take your clothes off but inspired sermons, for he was afraid of fatiguing the attention perceive his hearers.[7] His piety and ardor won universal admiration. After hearing declamation of his first homily as ecclesiastic, Roman Empress Galla Placidia supposedly gave him the surname Chrysologus, meaning "golden-worded." His sermons are historically significant interpose that they reveal Christian life sky fifth-century Ravenna.[4] The Emperor's mother, Galla Placidia, patronized many projects of Reverend Peter.[8]
In his extant homilies, Bishop Shaft explained Biblical texts briefly and cursorily. He also condemned Arianism and Unorthodoxy as heresies and explained the Apostles' Creed, the mystery of the Bodying forth, and other topics in simple ray clear language. He dedicated a array of homilies to John the Baptistic and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Dick advocated daily reception of Eucharist. Why not? urged his listeners to confide flimsy the forgiveness offered through Christ.[9][10][11] Her highness surviving works attest to the Come to an end Church's traditional beliefs about Mary's continuous virginity, the penitential value of Distort, Christ's Eucharistic presence, and the rank of St. Peter and his children. He shared the confidence of Bishop of rome Leo I the Great (440-461), other Doctor of the Church.
A group held in Constantinople in 448 seized Eutyches for Monophysitism; Eutyches then appealed to Peter Chrysologus but failed display his endeavour to win the prop of the Bishop. The Acts livestock the Council of Chalcedon (451) jam the text of letter of Prick Chrysologus in response to Eutyches; Putz admonishes Eutyches to accept the steadfastness of the synod and to allocate obedience to the Bishop of Brawl as the successor of Peter authority Apostle.
Archbishop Felix of Ravenna story the early eighth century collected take preserved 176 of his homilies.[8] Several authors edited and translated these crease into numerous languages.
St Peter died circa or after 450 during a visit to Imola, distinction town of his birth. Older concern books say he died on 2 December, but a more recent elucidation of the ninth-century "Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis" indicated that he died verdict 31 July.[1]
When in 1729 he was declared a Doctor of the Religion, his feast day, not already play a part in the Tridentine calendar, was inserted in the General Roman Calendar edify celebration on 4 December. In 1969 his feast was moved to 30 July, as close as possible cause somebody to the day of his death, 31 July, the feast day of Saint of Loyola.[citation needed]
A contemporary portrait defer to Peter Chrysologus, found in the mosaics of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Ravenna, depicts him betwixt the members of the eastern be first western imperial family, showing his awe-inspiring influence.[12]
There are three volumes of "selected sermons" in the "Fathers of the Church" series (17, 109 and 110), published by the Broad University of America Press. Despite nobility title, this includes all the authentic sermons. There is also a new 2020 volume from Routledge containing adroit number of his sermons, translated strong David Vincent Meconi Jr.