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Intercessores or Interventores

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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was the name of officers peculiar to the African Church, who acted as temporary incumbents of a vacant bishopric, and for the time being performed the episcopal functions. It was their duty to take measures for the immediate appointment of a bishop. To prevent abuses, which had become prevalent by either choosing incompetent successors or by protracting the election of a new prelate, a Council of Carthage in 401 forbade the tenure to continue longer than one year, and also any succession to the temporary occupant. See Farrar, Theol. Dict. s.v.; Walcott, Sacred Archeology, s.v.; Riddle, Christ. Antiq. p. 223.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Intercessores or Interventores'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​i/intercessores-or-interventores.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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