Roman Pontifical

A Pontifical is a liturgical book with instructions and texts for rituals in the Catholic Church, performed or directed by a bishop. To complement this, there are episcoporum the Caeremoniale.

History

The Pontifical of the Roman Rite has gradually developed between the 5th and 13th centuries, for the most part outside the city of Rome. There were long not the pontifical, but it was written several Pontifikalien in church history for the dioceses.

In historical Pontifikalien there are instructions for the implementation of lower and higher orders and other acts of worship by the Bishop. These include: Solemn Profession, virginal consecration, admission to the clergy by tonsure, ordering Ostiariern, acolytes, lectors, exorcists, sub-deacons, deacons, priests, the bishop, the abbot, the abbess, the consecration of churches, altars, monasteries, kings ( coronation ), the holy oil ( anointing oils ), etc.

Many old Pontifikalien are designed magnificently and today an antiquarian treasure.

Roman Pontifical

Based on the subsequent Pontifikalien is around 950 /62 so the monastery of St. Alban compiled before Mainz Pontificale Romano - Germanicum (aka Otto African pontifical ). It reached Rome, there was streamlined, simplified and adapted to the Roman Pontifical SAEC. XII with different versions. For the needs of the papal curia in Rome around 1210 under Pope Innocent III. a Pontificale Romanae Curiae SAEC. XIII compiled, which was also spread abroad soon. Since it took into account the needs of diocesan bishops only inadequate, developed in 1295, reported as a canonist and liturgist bishop William Durand of Mende in France first. For personal use, but with wider Ambiotionen, a private pontifical Because of its completeness and practicality took it over other bishops; next to the Pontifical Curia it was also at the papal court in Avignon used ( Avignonesisches papacy ). With return of the popes to Rome in 1378 it got there and then supplanted the previous Curia Pontifical completely. In order for the Durand - pontifical to submit all the later Roman pontifical to the liturgical reform of Vatican 2 under Pope Paul VI was ..

The first print of a Pontifikales took place under Pope Innocent VIII in 1485 by Agostino Patrizi Piccolomini. On his reprint of 1520 the first issue of the post-Tridentine based " Roman Pontifical " 1595/96 by Pope Clement VIII. It includes three books. Book I contains the ordinations and blessings of persons, Book II property, benedictions, Book III describes the main episcopal functions, connected with the liturgical year. The 1st and 3rd book remained largely unchanged until the Second Vatican Council; for the typical edition emendata of 1961/62 were certainly out- use forms, such as the coronation deleted. The second book possible - even before the recent reform of the liturgy by the Second Vatican Council - the Popes Pius XII. and John XXIII. change significantly and simplify.

  • Sodi M. (ed.): Il liber Pontificalis di Agostino Patrizi Piccolomini e Giovanni Burcardo ( 1485 ). Edizione anastatica, introduzione e appendice. Libreria editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2006. ISBN 8820976196th
  • M. Sodi - AM Triacca (ed.): Roman Pontifical. Editio princeps ( 1595-1596 ). Edizione anastatica, introduzione e appendice. Libreria editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1997.
  • Roman Pontifical. Editio juxta typicam. Reimpressio editionis juxta typicam anno MCMLXII publici juris factae, partibus praecedentibus editionis from illa omissis, 1962.

For use in the East, especially among the Thomas Christians, the Roman Pontifical from the Latin was translated into Syriac. Known manuscripts: Vat syr 89 of 1529, Vat syr 66 of 1545, Vat Syriac 186, 18th century, Vat syr 600 of 1782, Vat syr 512 of 1905.

Presence

Today, the Pontifical Romanum, which is divided into several volumes, specifies binding on the liturgy of episcopal sacraments and other celebrations. Fundamentally, each of the Latin original, are mostly used in worship transfers in the respective national languages.

  • Pontifical I, first edition 1989, current status 1994: De Ordinatione Episcopi, et Presbytero Diaconorum ( consecration of bishops, priests and deacons )
  • Pontifical II, first edition 1970, current status 1994: Ordo benedictionis Abbatis et Abbatissae, The blessing of the abbot and abbess
  • Ordo consecrationis virginum, The virginal consecration
  • First edition 1977, current status 1994: Ordo dedicationis ecclesiae et altaris, The Consecration of the Church and of the Altar
  • First edition 1983, current status 1994: Ordo benedicendi oleum Catechumenorum et infirmorum et conficiende chrisma, The blessing of the sick Katechumenenöls and oil as well as the consecration of the chrism
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