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DUCHESNE, LOUIS MARIE OLIVIER (1843 ) , French scholar and ecclesiastic, was born at Saint Servan in Brittany on the 13th of September 1843. Two scientific missionsto Mount
Asia
Minor in 1876appeared at first to incline him towards the study of the ancient history of the Christian churches of the East
critical acumen the origin of that celebrated chronicle, determined the different editions and their interrelation, and stated precisely the value of his evidence. Immediately after-wards he was appointed professor at the Catholic Institute in Paris, and for eight years presented the example and model, then rare in France, of a priest teaching church history according to the rules of scientific criticism. His course, bold even to the point of rashness in the eyes of the traditionalist exegetists, was at length suspended. In November 1885 he was appointed lecturer at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. In 1886 he published volume i. of his learned edition of the Liber pontificalis (completed in 1892 by volume ii.), in which he resumed and, completed the results he had attained in his French thesis. In 1888 he was elected member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and was afterwards appointed director of the French school of archaeology at Rome. Much light is thrown upon the Christian origins, especially those of France, by his Origines du culte chretien, etude sur la liturgie latine avant Charlemagne(1889; Eng. trans. by M. L. McClure, Christian Worship : its Origin and Evolution, London, 1902, 2nd ed. 1904) ; Memoire sur l'origine des dioceses episcopaux dans l'ancienne Gaule (189o), the preliminary sketch of a more detailed work
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union of those churches was possible tinder the Roman supremacy, because unity did not necessarily entail uniformity. His Autonomies ecclesiastiques; eglises separees (1897), in which he speaks of the origin of the Anglican Church, but treats especially of the origin of the Greek Churches of the East, was received with scant favour in certain narrow circles of the pontifical court. In 1906 he began to publish, under the title of Histoire ancienne de l'eglise, a course of lectures which he had already delivered upon the early ages of the Church, and of which a few manuscript
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