[596:5] Epist. xlix. p. 143. See Neander's "General History," i. 307, and Burton's "Lectures on the Ecc. Hist, of the First Three Centuries," ii. 331. Burton repudiates the attempts of Bingham and others to explain away this proceeding.
[597:1] They are called so for the first time in the Council of Ancyra. They had before always been called simply bishops. It has been remarked that we never find any chorepiscopi among the African bishops, though many of them occupied as humble a position as those so designated elsewhere.
[597:2] Canon xiii., "Canones Apost. et Concil. Berolini," 1839.
[598:1] In the case of Novatian. Euseb. vi. 43.
[599:1] These presbyters were called Doctores. Cyprian, Epist. xxxiv. p. 80.
[599:2] It would appear that, even at the time of the Council of Carthage held A.D. 397, a bishop had sometimes only one presbyter under his care. See Dupin's account of the Council.
[599:3] Bingham, i. 198; and Beveridge, "Cotelerius," tom. ii. App. p. 17.
[600:1] See Period II. sec. i. chap. ii. p. 302, and p. 355.
[601:1] Euseb. vi. 43.
[601:2] Bunsen's "Hippolytus," iii. 50. Another canon says—"He who is worthy out of the bishops … putteth his hand upon him whom they have made bishop, praying over him."—Bunsen, iii. 42.