Aeneas of Paris (died 27 December 870) was bishop of Paris from 858 to 870. He is best known as the author of one of the controversial treatises against the Byzantines ("Greeks"), called forth by the encyclical letters of Photius. His comprehensive ''Liber adversus Græcos'' deals with the

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, the marriage of the clergy,

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, the '' consignatio infantium'', the

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, the

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, and the elevation of

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s to the

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. He declares that the accusations brought by the Greeks against the Latins are "superfluous questions having more relation to secular matters than to spiritual." The work is mainly a collection of quotations or "sentences," from Greek and Latin Church Fathers, the former translated. In his ''Epistola tractoria ad Wenilonem'', written about 856,

Prudentius of Troyes Prudentius (? in Aragon, Spain – 6 April 861 at Troyes, France) was bishop of Troyes, a chronicler and an opponent of Hincmar of Reims in the controversy on predestination. Life Prudentius left Spain in his youth and came to the Frankish Empir ...

makes his approval of the

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of Aeneas as the new Bishop of Paris depend on the latter's subscription to four articles favouring a

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870 deaths Bishops of Paris Year of birth unknown 9th-century writers in Latin Writers from the Carolingian Empire 9th-century French bishops {{France-RC-bishop-stub