decretals
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decretals. Papal letters, strictly those in response to a question. They have the force of law within the Pope's jurisdiction. The earliest influential collection was made by
Dionysius Exiguus (
c.520). See also
FALSE DECRETALS.
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To Him, Calendar Makes Zero Sense
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/27/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...had never heard of this guy Dionysius Exiguus who apparently was very big...according to Monson, is that this Dionysius Exiguus, a monk and early Christian...establishment of Rome, to which Dionysius assigned the date of Jan. 1...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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CATCH NEW-MILLENNIUM FEVER -- ONE YEAR EARLY.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/28/1999; 700+ words
; ...the sixth-century scholar Dionysius Exiguus.'' Or, if you grant greater...About 1,500 years ago the monk Dionysius Exiguus -- Dennis the Short -- was...persecuted early Christians, and Dionysius said in a letter he ``preferred...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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ONE YEAR EARLY, OR FOUR YEARS LATE?
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 12/20/1998; ; 482 words
; ...calendrical mix-up. His name is Dionysius Exiguus -- literally, "Dennis the...the sixth century. Back then, Dionysius and everyone else in the Western...an overhaul, and he charged Dionysius with the task. In a bit of historical...
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TAKE STOCK OF HOW YOU SPEND TIME
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 12/23/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...computation of years done by Dionysius Exiguus, a sixth-century monk. Trying...year in which Jesus was born. Dionysius Exiguus means "Dennis the Short...calculations. Scholars believe Dionysius was wrong by four years or more...
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Just phenomenal Past counting
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 1/1/2000; ; 580 words
; ...invented by a Roman monk named Dionysius Exiguus who proposed that years be numbered...practice at the time. Since Dionysius believed that Christ was born...currently living in AD533. Note that Dionysius started with year one, not year...
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After 1,500 years the date's still wrong - and it's all the fault of Denis Questions & Answers
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/28/2003; ; 582 words
; ...AD 2004, lies in the work of Dionysius Exiguus ("Denis the Lesser"), a...1,400 years ago. In AD 532 Dionysius proposed a Christian calendar...Time (Wiley, 2000). First, Dionysius did not do the obvious thing...
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Noteworthy Ukrainians: Inventing time and the Ukrainian connection
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 2/11/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Era is generally attributed to Dionysius Exiguus, (c. 470-540) that is...of present-day Ukraine), Dionysius was an abbot who came to Rome...Pope John I in about 525. When Dionysius initiated his cycle of the Christian...
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Let's celebrate the birth of a very good idea
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...may previously have mentioned Dionysius Exiguus, Russian-born monk, martyr...Christmas. It was in 525AD that Dionysius was asked by the Pope to devise...festivals. Logically enough, Dionysius began by identifying the day...
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Quando festeggiare il 2000? Problemi di cronologia cristiana
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1999; ; 676 words
; ...the widely held assumption that Dionysius Exiguus miscalculated the date of Jesus...was closer to the date fixed by Dionysius that tradition has used to mark...and Rome. In the sixth century Dionysius, a Scythian monk resident in...
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Christ's 2,000th birthday passed
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/13/1998; ; 444 words
; ...1997. A 6th century monk named Dionysius Exiguus ("Dennis the Short") didn...date for Easter. Ultimately, Dionysius produced a 95-year table of...dates. But, says Duncan, when Dionysius published his tables he dumped...
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Dionysius Exiguus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Dionysius Exiguus Roman scholar and theologian Dionysius Exiguus (c. 465 A.D.-c. 530 A.D.) is best known...Church texts for study. A Life Shrouded By History Dionysius Exiguus, the man, is something of a mystery to modern scholars...
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Dionysius
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Dionysius (7) Exiguus (d. between 529 and c. 556), Scythian monk, famous for his contributions to chronology and canon law . He seems to have arrived...
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era
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...times, there may be anomalies in dating. Thus, the beginning of the Christian era, originally fixed probably by Dionysius Exiguus , was set a little too late. Therefore the actual birth of Jesus must be dated a little earlier, probably in 4...
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Anno Domini
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...system of dating by ‘AD’, based on the traditional date of the birth of Christ, was devised by Dionysius Exiguus (6th cent.). It is now commonly held that the actual birth was several years earlier.
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Apostolic Canons
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...mostly deal with the responsibilities and moral conduct of the clergy. The first 50 were translated into Latin by Dionysius Exiguus and so became part of the canon law of the W. Church.
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