Equivalence of Rank - Secular Postions with Ecclesiastical Ones

Gilbert, bishop of Limerick, around 1139  produced a document about hierarchy in the Western Church on the equivalence in the hierarchical rank of ecclesiastical posts relative to secular ones.

As far as I know this document had no official status in its time.

https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaecurs91unkngoog#page/n503/mode/1up

Patrologia Latina Tome 159: Cols 997-1004

De Statu Ecclesiae

Patrologiae cursus completus: sive biblioteca universalis,integra uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium SS. Patrum, doctorum scriptorumque eccelesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad usque Innocentii III tempora floruerunt ... [Series Latina, in qua prodeunt Patres, doctores scriptoresque Ecclesiae Latinae, a Tertulliano ad Innocentium III]. Tome 159. 1854.

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Liber De Statu Ecclesiae PDF

De statu ecclesiae

Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores: Or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. 1865. pp. 208–

Rosamond McKitterick (1995). The New Cambridge Medieval History: pts. 1-2. c. 1024-c. 1198. Footnote 2: Cambridge University Press. pp. 368–. ISBN 978-0-521-41410-4..

Coniungitur autem imperator papae, rex primati, dux archipontifici, comes episcopo,

miles sacerdoti, quia istae personae pares illis saecularibus iure decernuntur.

Joined with the Emperor is the pope, the King with the primate, the Duke with the archbishop,

The Earl/Count with a bishop, The knight with a priest, because it is decreed that these parsons are equal to those secular law voted.

Durham Cathedral Manuscripts to the End of the Twelfth Century. Ten Plates in Colour and Forty-seven in Monochrome. With an Introduction [including a List of All Known Durham Manuscripts Before 1200] by R.A.B. Mynors. 1939.

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