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Altfrid bishop of Hildesheim from 851, to 874, is said to have been a monk at Corvey before his elevation to the bishopric. The ordinations performed by his predecessor, bishop Ebbo, who died March 20, 851, he declared null and void, because he regarded the translation of Ebbo from Rheims to Hildesheim as in conflict … Continue reading “Altfrid”

Alteserra, Plavius Francois a brother of Antoine, professor of jurisprudence at Poitiers, who died about 1670, is the author of Notce et Animadversiones ad Indiculos Ecclesiasticorum Canonum Fulgentii FerranDict, Cresconii Afri (Poitiers, 1630): Exercitatio ad Tit. Decretaliun Gregor. IX de Etate, Qualitate. et Ordine Prceficiendorum (Paris, 1635). Both works are also reprinted in Meerman’s Thesaurus … Continue reading “Alteserra, Plavius Francois”

Alteserra, Antoine Dadin a famous French historian and canonist, was born at Guyenne in 1602. In 1644 he was appointed professor of jurisprudence at the University of Toulouse, and died in 1682 as dean of his faculty. His extensive knowledge of the Greek and Latin Church fathers as well as of the history of the … Continue reading “Alteserra, Antoine Dadin”

alternation In liturgy, the response of a congregation praying in turn with the officiating minister, as in saying the Rosary or litanies; or the recitation of the Divine Office in choir, each side reciting a verse in turn. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Alternate Presentation THE RIGHT OF. In the Church of Rome the right of alternative consists in the power of presenting, alternately with the pope, to collative benefices; so that if the pope confers benefices which fall vacant in the month of January, the bishop confers those which become vacant in February, and so on. The … Continue reading “Alternate Presentation”

Altered * For ALTERED see OTHER, No. 2 Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Altercatio in Roman mythology, is the personified vice of dispute. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Alteration (Lat. alter, other) In Aristotle’s philosophy change of quality, as distinguished from change of quantity (growth and diminution) and from change of place (locomotion). — G.R.M. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Alter, Franz Carl a German Jesuit, and professor of Greek at the gymnasium in Vienna, was born at Engelberg, in Silesia, Jan. 27, 1749, and died March 29, 1804. He published a new critical edition of the New Testament (Novum Testamentum, 2 vols. Vienna, 1786-87) on the basis of the Codex Lambecii I, with which … Continue reading “Alter, Franz Carl”

Altensteig (Or Altenstaig),Johann a German Catholic theologian, lived in the first half of the 16th century. He was for a time professor at Tubingen, and published, Vocabularium Vocum quce in Operibus Grammticorcum Plusinorum Continentur (Tubingen, 1508; Hagenau, 1512 and 1515): Vocabularium Theoloviculs (Hagen au, 1517): Commentaries in Henrici Bibelici Triumphum Veneris (Strasburg, 1515): Ars Epistolandi … Continue reading “Altensteig (Or Altenstaig),Johann”