Euchologion

Euchologion ( Eὐχολόγιον ) is called the liturgical book of various Eastern Churches, the all or portion of those prayers that bishops and presbyters have to speak as head of a religious service. In the West, it corresponds to the Sacramentary. In form, it is either a code or a set of scrolls ( Rotulus, Kontakion ).

A Μικρὸν Eὐχολόγιον ( " Small Euchologion " ) contains the texts for the celebration of the sacraments except the Eucharist. It corresponds to the Western rituals.

From the early church only a few full Euchologien are known, in particular a collection of the 4th century from Egypt, which is the Bishop Serapion attributed by Thmuis, the so-called " Serapion - Euchologion " (Codex unicus: Athos, monastery Great Lavra 149). Late Antiquity fragments are found in greater numbers.

The oldest surviving Euchologion the Byzantine liturgy is the so-called " Euchologion Barberinum S. Marci ," the handwriting Barbe Rinus Graecus 336 ( formerly: III 55) of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. It is a southern Italian copy of an extended to middle eastern materials Konstantinopolitaner Patriarchal Euchologions from the 8th century. Oldest known manuscript of a Euchologions the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople Opel is the Codex Paris, BnF, Coislin 213 ( v. J. 1027). A palästinisches Euchologion (before 1030) brought Simeon of Trier with it.

The oldest Slavic Euchologion is the Glagolitic Euchologion Sinaiticum ( Sinaiticus slav. 37 / O 1 / N) from the 11th century.

A first Roman Catholic edition of the Greek Euchologions appeared in 1754 in Rome under Pope Benedict XIV through its perennial editorial history and not a few changes compared to Orthodox tradition teaches Benedict's encyclical Ex quo.