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Of See also:AGDE (Concilium Agathense).—With the permission of the See also:West Goth See also:Alaric II. See also:thirty-five bishops of See also:southern See also:Gaul assembled in See also:person or sent deputies to Agde on the 11th of See also:September 5o6
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Caesarius, See also:bishop of Axles, presided
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The See also:forty-seven genuine canons of the synod See also:deal with discipline, See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:life, the See also:alienation of ecclesiastical See also:property and the treatment of See also:Jews
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While favouring sacerdotal See also:celibacy the See also:council laid rather rigid restrictions on See also:monasticism
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It commanded that the laity communicate at See also:Christmas, See also:Easter and Whitsuntide
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The canons of Agde are based in See also:part on earlier Gallic, See also:African and See also:Spanish. legislation; and some of them were re-enacted by later See also:councils, and found their way into collections such as the Hispana, Pseudo-Isidore and See also:Gratian
.
See Mansi viii
.
319 ff
.
; See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, 2nd edition, ii
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649 if
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(See also:English See also:translation, iv
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76 ff.); See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, i
.
242
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