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St. Cyprian, third-century bishop of Carthage, developed a theory of church unity almost universally accepted up to the European Reformation: to be a member of the Body of Christ you needed to be in communion with a priest who was in communion with a bishop who in turn was in communion with all other bishops in the world. But, how could you discern who was a legitimate bishop? And, on what kind...
These translations with their introductions and notes are the product of a continuing research project begun at the British School at Rome in 1999, supported then by a Grant in Aid of Research by the Leverhulme Trust. My work has been concerned with the interface between the development of church order and Christian theology and Graeco Roman culture and history. Cyprian was the great publicist who argued his theory of church unity with such success that it achieved almost universal acceptance
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