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Saturday, 16 September

Today in Church History

What happened in the life of the Church on this day across twenty centuries.

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✦ Feast Day c. AD 200–258
Feast of Cyprian of Carthage
Cyprian is the ideal witness to Petrine primacy precisely because he was in conflict with Rome. He disputed the Pope's ruling on rebaptism — and yet, in his treatise on Church unity, he calls Rome the chair of Peter and says whoever deserts it does not hold the faith. A man who argues against Rome while affirming its theological centrality is the strongest possible witness to that centrality.
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