Everything about Paul Bishop Of M Rida totally explained
Paul was the
metropolitan bishop of Mérida in the mid sixth century (fl. 540s/550s). He was a
Greek physician who had travelled to
Mérida, where there may have been a Greek expatriate community. Certainly enough Greek clergy were travelling to Spain in the early sixth century that
Pope Hormisdas wrote to the Spanish bishops in 518 explaining what to do if Greeks still adhering to the heresy of
Acacius desired to enter communion with the local church. Though
canon law dictated that all gifts to bishops passed to the Church, Paul kept the legacy as his private possession.
Paul's sister's son,
Fidelis, was hired out as a boy to a trading vessel on its way to Spain. When the merchants arrived in Mérida, they approached the bishop for an audience, as was customary, and Paul discovered his nephew. Paul immediately took Fidelis under his wing. Contrary to canon law, he consecrated Fidelis as his successor in the bishopric and tried to force the clergy to accept his decision by threatening to withhold his vast private wealth which technically belonged to the Church. The
VPE, as it's abbreviated, refers to Paul as a saint. but he's also used as proof of the close ties between the East and West which still existed for Spain at least in the sixth century. He also demonstrates that there was little prejudice which would prevent foreigners from attaining high position in a Spanish city under the
Visigothic monarchy.
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