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Council Of Elvira

The Council of Elvira is the former name of the current Granada in Spain ) is a council held in 305 or 306. It dealt with the internal life of the Church ( celibacy of the clergy, etc.)..

The council had discussed for the first time in his gun 62, the question of "comedians, pantomime and the circus charioteers." Those who wished to embrace the Christian faith had previously abandon their profession, resulting in the case of the excommunication of the actors. But the Council of Elvira was a provincial council, whose decisions had only a limited geographical scope.

Bibliography

Giovanni Domenico Mansi , sacrorum Conciliorum amplissima nova collectio (Florence and Venice, 1758-98) vol.II.ii.1-406; reprint (Paris) 1906 Reprints The account of Ferdinand de Mendoza, pp. 57-397.
Jean Hardouin , Conciliorum collectio regia maxima i. pp. 247-258.
Karl Josef von Hefele , Conciliengeschichte I, pp. 148-192 (2nd ed. 1873) (Franais translational, i. pp. 131 et seq.)
Alfred W. Dale, The Synod of Elvira and Christian Life in the Fourth Century (London, 1882)
Edgar Hennecke , in Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (3rd ed), sv. "Elvira", especially the bibliography.
Samuel Laeuchli, Power and Sexuality: The Emergence of Canon Law at The Synod of Elvira (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) 1972.
Jose F. Ubin. The Council of Elvira and the spirit of paganism / / Dialogues of ancient history. V. 19. No. 19-1, 1993 pp. 309-318. Available at Perseus