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The Church Fathers · c. 690, from his rulings
The Penitential of Theodore
Theodore of Tarsus · 602–690
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What it is
Rulings by a Greek archbishop of Canterbury on penance, marriage, food, and the reconciliation of Irish and Roman practice, collected by a disciple.
Why it lasted
The most influential penitential of the early Middle Ages, and evidence of a Greek scholar running the English church.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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