Section 07: Pastor and Administrator
Beyond the theologian of the Tome stands the administrator who built Roman ecclesiastical order and the doctrinal enforcer who hunted heresy across the West. This section surveys the ~143-letter corpus and the great Western-jurisdiction episodes — above all the vicariate of Arles and the Hilary affair — and then the campaigns against the Manichaeans, the Priscillianists, and the residue of Pelagianism.
Tradition: Pan-Orthodox (Church Father / Latin)
Contents
| File | Title | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| the-letters-and-church-order.md | The Letters and Church Order | The ~143-letter corpus (the count and its range, the editions, the documentary value); the vicariate of Arles and the Hilary affair (445), with Novella 17 of Valentinian III; relations with the Eastern churches (Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch) and the Western (Gaul, Spain, Africa, Italy); Leo as the builder of Roman church order. |
| against-heresy.md | Against Heresy | The campaign against the Manichaeans at Rome (443–444); the Priscillianists (Ep. 15 to Turibius of Astorga, 447); the residue of Pelagianism; Leo as the guardian of Western doctrinal order, his anti-heresy work and his Christology one pastoral vocation. |
How to Use
- Read The Letters and Church Order for the administrative and jurisdictional record — the documentary backbone of the pontificate.
- Then read Against Heresy for the doctrinal-policing dimension. The primacy doctrine that underlies the jurisdictional acts is reserved for Section 05.
Cross-References
- The Petrine Theology — the doctrine of the see of Peter behind the jurisdictional claims.
- The Man and the Office — the office whose administration these files document.
- Church Fathers — the patristic framework.
- The Pre-Schism Church — the church order of the undivided Church.
- Methodology — the governing citation standard.
References
Full citations are at the foot of each file. The letters are cited by number (PL 54; trans. Feltoe, NPNF 2nd ser. vol. 12; Hunt, FOTC 34); Novella 17 of Valentinian III (8 July 445); Ep. 15 to Turibius (447); the secondary scholarship principally Jalland, Wessel, Neil, and Mathisen.