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_005195274	Shahan, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1857-1932.	The Apostolic see : a discourse	1908		.txt	text/plain	10927	265	45	We need not wonder therefore that in the thousand years which elapsed from the Fall of Rome to the invention of print- ing, the successor of Peter was universally known as the apos- tolic man par excellence, the “ Apostolicus,*’ the “ Domnus Apostolicus,” the Apostolic Chief, or that men spoke less frequently of Rome and more often of the “ Sedes Apostolica,’’ 17 the apostolic seat or centre of Christian religious authority visibly identical with its divine origin amid the vicissitudes of the ages as they came and went. In matters of Christian faith it brought before its tribunal the highest Chris- tian scholarship in the person of Origen, and it called for explanation and submission from high-placed and saintly bishops like Dionysius of Alexandria, while the supreme tribu- nal of the empire recognized at the same time that in practice the bishop of Rome was the judge of Christian life and discipline.	cache/_005195274.txt	txt/_005195274.txt