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subject	book bibliographic info
diocese, asiana	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 266, 276, 277, 288, 292, 293, 308, 351
diocese, assize district, conventus	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 247, 260, 262, 289, 354, 361, 363, 414
diocese, ephesos, roman	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 260, 262
diocese, illyricum	Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022), Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas, 2, 61, 117
diocese, in late antiquity, asiana	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 393
diocese, miletus/milesians, roman	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 260
diocese, of stockholm, catholic	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer (2022), Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity, 19, 34
diocese, pontica	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 393
diocese, vicarius, administrator of a	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 393
dioceses	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 266, 276, 283, 288, 289, 292, 293, 308, 318, 322, 328, 351, 352, 353, 354, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 382 Ruiz and Puertas (2021), Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives, 220, 221, 225, 228, 229, 230
dioceses, in asia, roman province, commonalty and	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 260, 262, 416, 420, 422
dioceses, phrygia/phrygians	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 298
dioceses, taxes, roman	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 260

List of validated texts:

5 validated results for "dioceses"

1. New Testament, John, 20.22 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Catholic, Diocese of Stockholm • Episcopal

Found in books: Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer (2022), Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity, 19; Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014), Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianity, 450

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20.22 καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν ἐνεφύσησεν καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς Λάβετε πνεῦμα ἅγιον·'' None

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20.22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit! '' None

2. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Illyricum, diocese • episcopal appointment

Found in books: Breytenbach and Tzavella (2022), Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas, 2; Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019), Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 2

3. Ambrose, On Duties, 2.125 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Arians, devising an episcopal role • delegation of adjudication, episcopal jurisdiction

Found in books: Esler (2000), The Early Christian World, 1189; Humfress (2007), Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic, 161

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2.125 In giving judgment let us have no respect of persons. Favour must be put out of sight, and the case be decided on its merits. Nothing is so great a strain on another's good opinion or confidence, as the fact of our giving away the cause of the weaker to the more powerful in any case that comes before us. The same happens if we are hard on the poor, while we make excuses for the rich man when guilty. Men are ready enough to flatter those in high positions, so as not to let them think themselves injured, or to feel vexed as though overthrown. But if you fear to give offense then do not undertake to give judgment. If you are a priest or some cleric do not urge it. It is allowable for you to be silent in the matter, if it be a money affair, though it is always due to consistency to be on the side of equity. But in the cause of God, where there is danger to the whole Church, it is no small sin to act as though one saw nothing."" None

4. Augustine, Confessions, 6.3.3 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Arians, devising an episcopal role • silence, episcopal

Found in books: Esler (2000), The Early Christian World, 1184; Harrison (2006), Augustine's Way into the Will: The Theological and Philosophical Significance of De libero, 108, 109

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6.3.3 3. Nor did I now groan in my prayers that You would help me; but my mind was wholly intent on knowledge, and eager to dispute. And Ambrose himself I esteemed a happy man, as the world counted happiness, in that such great personages held him in honour; only his celibacy appeared to me a painful thing. But what hope he cherished, what struggles he had against the temptations that beset his very excellences, what solace in adversities, and what savoury joys Your bread possessed for the hidden mouth of his heart when ruminating on it, I could neither conjecture, nor had I experienced. Nor did he know my embarrassments, nor the pit of my danger. For I could not request of him what I wished as I wished, in that I was debarred from hearing and speaking to him by crowds of busy people, whose infirmities he devoted himself to. With whom when he was not engaged (which was but a little time), he either was refreshing his body with necessary sustece, or his mind with reading. But while reading, his eyes glanced over the pages, and his heart searched out the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent. ofttimes, when we had come (for no one was forbidden to enter, nor was it his custom that the arrival of those who came should be announced to him), we saw him thus reading to himself, and never otherwise; and, having long sat in silence (for who dared interrupt one so intent?), we were fain to depart, inferring that in the little time he secured for the recruiting of his mind, free from the clamour of other men's business, he was unwilling to be taken off. And perchance he was fearful lest, if the author he studied should express anything vaguely, some doubtful and attentive hearer should ask him to expound it, or to discuss some of the more abstruse questions, as that, his time being thus occupied, he could not turn over as many volumes as he wished; although the preservation of his voice, which was very easily weakened, might be the truer reason for his reading to himself. But whatever was his motive in so doing, doubtless in such a man was a good one. 4. But verily no opportunity could I find of ascertaining what I desired from that Your so holy oracle, his breast, unless the thing might be entered into briefly. But those surgings in me required to find him at full leisure, that I might pour them out to him, but never were they able to find him so; and I heard him, indeed, every Lord's day, rightly dividing the word of truth 2 Timothy 2:15 among the people; and I was all the more convinced that all those knots of crafty calumnies, which those deceivers of ours had knit against the divine books, could be unravelled. But so soon as I understood, withal, that man made after the image of Him that created him was not so understood by Your spiritual sons (whom of the Catholic mother You had begotten again through grace), as though they believed and imagined You to be bounded by human form - although what was the nature of a spiritual substance I had not the faintest or dimmest suspicion - yet rejoicing, I blushed that for so many years I had barked, not against the Catholic faith, but against the fables of carnal imaginations. For I had been both impious and rash in this, that what I ought inquiring to have learned, I had pronounced on condemning. For Thou, O most high and most near, most secret, yet most present, who hast not limbs some larger some smaller, but art wholly everywhere, and nowhere in space, nor are You of such corporeal form, yet have You created man after Your own image, and, behold, from head to foot is he confined by space. "" None

5. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • controversy, episcopal elections

Found in books: Hanghan (2019), Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters, and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus, 52; Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 52

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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