Title: A Question of Jurisdiction. Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon, and the Catholic Laity, 1625-31
Abstract: One of the problems left unresolved by historians who have treated of the troubled episcopate of Richard Smith concerns Smith’s claim to jurisdiction over the Catholic laity in England. Two questions have never been satisfactorily answered: What exactly was the nature of the jurisdiction that he claimed? and How did he set about trying to exercise it in practice? Anyone who has read the published histories that touch upon these questions will be aware that they aroused bitter and prolonged controversy but will have been left with no very clear idea of what Smith actually claimed the right to do and did.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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