Very early Community on relationships away from St Gregory off Nyssa
Here it’s common to put the marriage out of Gregory that have Theosebeia, thought to have been a sister regarding Gregory Nazianzus. Certainly the new society out-of Gregory’s (Nyssa) relationships received like borrowing from the bank about be produced during the immediately following times an evidence of the new low-celibacy of Bishops away from his ages. [p.3, An outline of your own Longevity of St Gregory out-of Nyssa, Next Collection, Vol. 5]
St john Chrysostom to the partnered Hierarchs
‘A Bishop following,’ he says, ‘must feel blameless the spouse of a single partner.’ So it the guy does not lie down as a rule, as if he must not be without one, but since prohibiting his with more than one. [p.438, Very first Collection, Vol. 13, St-john Chrysostom, Homily X, Homilies to your Timothy]
7:33), and you can an excellent bishop must not care for the some thing out of the world, why does he say ‘the husband of just one wife’? Read more
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