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Chapter uncertain; original source section: Preface
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (original ANF VIII translator credit), Alexander Roberts (Edinburgh series editor), James Donaldson (Edinburgh series editor), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (American revision with prefaces and notes), Matthew Brown Riddle (American volume collaborator; individual note authorship unspecified).
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Urban was the successor of Callistus. The letter ascribed to him is one of the pseudo-Isidorian forgeries.
Editorial footnote · The Epistle of Pope Urban First, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Preface, editorial note cite_note-1 · Original source
The Epistle of Pope Urban First.
Mansi, Concil. Collect., i. p. 748.
Editorial footnote · The Epistle of Pope Urban First, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Preface, editorial note cite_note-2 · Original source
Of the church’s receiving only the property of the faithful, and not the price of the same, as in the times of the apostles; and as to why elevated seats should be prepared in the churches for the bishops; and as to the fact that no one should have intercourse with those whom the bishops excommunicate, and that no one should receive those whom they have cast out in any manner whatever.