Aeneas of Paris was bishop of Paris from 858 to 870.

He is best known as the author of one of the controversial treatises against the Greeks, called forth by the encyclical letters of Photius. His comprehensive Liber adversus Græcos deals with the procession of the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit is a term introduced in English translations of the Hebrew Bible, but understood differently in the main Abrahamic religions.While the general concept of a "Spirit" that permeates the cosmos has been used in various religions Holy Spirit is a term introduced in English translations of...

, the marriage of the clergy, fasting

Fasting

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, the consignatio infantium, the clerical tonsure, the Roman primacy, and the elevation of deacon

Deacon

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s to the see of Rome. 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

Church Fathers

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, the former translated.

Source

• Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, public domain text