Emmanuel Schelstrate (1649 – 6 April 1692) was a

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born at

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in 1649. While he was a canon of the cathedral of Antwerp, he was called to

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and made an assistant librarian of the

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. He was a fine scholar in early ecclesiastical history and became the accredited defender of the

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supremacy. For this reason his writings have often been very severely judged. His ''Antiquitas illustrata circa concilia generalia et provincialia'' (Antwerp, 1678) contains decrees of the popes and various matters of Catholic church history; in it he attacked what he, in accord with the Church in Rome, viewed as the errors of Jean Launoy regarding the primacy of Rome. Schelstrate was only able to issue two volumes of a second edition which he had planned on a large scale (1692 and 1697). He carried on controversies with Arnauld and

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concerning the authority of the general councils and of the popes; he opposed the 1682 ''

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'', codifying the principles of

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. Schelstrate wrote a treatise on the origin of the

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in a controversy with

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. He published numerous other works. He died at Rome on 6 April 1692.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schelstrate, Emmanuel 1649 births 1692 deaths Roman Catholic theologians of the Spanish Netherlands Flemish Roman Catholic priests Clergy of the Spanish Netherlands