TABLE OF DATES OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. A.D. 325. The first General Council, at Nicæa: Nicene Creed. 381. Second General Council, at Constantinople: Enlarged Nicene Creed? 398. Litanies at Constantinople. 431. Third General Council, at Ephesus: Rubrics of the Ordinal. 440. LEO I. (the Great), bishop of Rome: supposed to have arranged a Sacramentary, containing the Eucharistic Office of the Roman Church. The Gallican Liturgy supposed to be introduced into the British Marriage of the Clergy discountenanced. 451. Fourth General Council, at Chalcedon: recited the Nicene Creed and the enlarged Nicene Creed. 460. MAMERTUS, bishop of Vienne, appoints Litanies on the three Rogation Days. 492. GELASIUS, bishop of Rome, arranges the Sacramentary. 526. The Festival of the Purification of the Virgin Mary probably established, to supply the place of the abolished Lupercalia. 529. Monastic Rule of BENEDICT of Nursia. 530, 536, and 541. Edicts of JUSTINIAN supporting the Celibacy of the Clergy; also the system of private patronage of ecclesiastical benefices. 549. The Tonsure becomes general among the Clergy of the West. 590. GREGORY I. (the Great), bishop of Rome, arranges the Sacramentary; appoints the sevenfold Litany. 597. AUGUSTINE, the Missionary from Rome, arrives in England. 675. THEODORE, archbishop of Canterbury, arranges a Penitential. 721. Saxon translation of the Gospels. 731. Termination of BEDA's Ecclesiastical History. |