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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Robert JohnClinesPope as Arbiter: The Place of Early Modern Rome in the Pan-Mediterranean Ecumenical Visions of Eastern Rite Christianshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/T3QV6RDBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/T3QV6RDBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/T3QV6RDBMatthew ConeysWainwrightEmilyMichelsonA Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern RomeLeidenBrill202155-88Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 95The early modern papacy’s effort to promote itself as the head of Christendom centered in part on Rome functioning as a monumental capital. In turn, Rome became a destination for pilgrims, students, and curious itinerants. Among that number were Eastern Rite Christians. However, not every Eastern Rite Christian visitor was a pilgrim or seminarian. Rather, Eastern Rite Christian legates often came to Rome to gauge the sitting pope’s willingness to arbitrate jurisdictional disputes, aid them financially, or assist them in liturgical reform. This essay explores legates from the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and the Assyrian Church of the East who traveled to Rome to assess whether the sitting pope was willing to recognize the election of their respective patriarchs. This suggests that, while these legates denied papal primacy, they believed that the popes, functioning as Patriarch of Rome, were important leaders in a pan-Mediterranean Christian ecumene. These case studies of Eastern Rite Christians engaging with Rome, the popes, the Curia, and Catholic missionaries should compel us to rethink how religious minorities experienced and understood Roman Catholicism, and to recognize that Rome’s early modern visitors were as integral to giving the Eternal City meaning as were popes and potentates.
Clines, Robert John. “Pope as Arbiter: The Place of Early Modern Rome in the Pan-Mediterranean Ecumenical Visions of Eastern Rite Christians.” In A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome, edited by Matthew Coneys Wainwright and Emily Michelson, 55–88. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 95. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
Robert John Clines, Pope as Arbiter: The Place of Early Modern Rome in the Pan-Mediterranean Ecumenical Visions of Eastern Rite Christians, in A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome, ed. Matthew Coneys Wainwright and Emily Michelson, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 95 (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 55–88.Roman CatholicRomeVII-XVIII CEWestern missionXVI CEXVII CE