Primary source · Latin

The Acts and Subscriptions of the Council of Arles

Conciliar record · AD 314

What this text is

The canons and signature list of Constantine's council on the Donatist appeal — the roll that gives the earliest documentary sight of the British and Gallic episcopate: Eborius of York, Restitutus of London, Adelphius, Maternus of Cologne, Reticius of Autun, Marinus of Arles, Agritius of Trier.

Public-domain translations

Working translation (of representative list entries)

Eborius, bishop of the city of York, of the province of Britain. Restitutus, bishop of the city of London... Maternus of Cologne, Reticius of Autun, Marinus of Arles — subscribed to the canons of the synod of Arles.

Manuscript witnesses

Gallic canonical collections

6th c. onward

The Arles dossier preserved in the early Gallic canon-law books; the subscription lists vary but the British sees are constant.

SURVIVING WITNESSES

Munier, Concilia Galliae (CCSL 148)

1963

The Corpus Christianorum edition of the Gallic councils.

CRITICAL TEXT

Provenance

Arles, Gaul; the first Western council summoned by an emperor

Editions & scholarship

Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.

Figures named in this text (9)