Monday, September 20, 2021

The Second Session of the First Lateran Council (649) Calling Bishops “High Priests”

  

The blessed David says to God, ‘Righteousness and judgement are the preparation of your throne, mercy and truth will go before your face’ (Ps 88:15). Therefore the holy synod of most God-beloved high priests in session with us, wishing, as is due, to perform this ‘preparation’ through the ‘truth’ of the proceedings for the glory and the imitation of his sacred throne . . . .(The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 [Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014], 141)