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NEOPHYTE (Gr. veb4vros , from aios, new, 4vT6v, a plant, " newly planted ")

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 372 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NEOPHYTE (Gr. veb4vros , from aios, new, 4vT6v, a plant, " newly planted ") , a word used in the Eleusinian and other mysteries to designate the newly initiated, and in the early
church
  applied to newly baptized persons. These usually wore the
white
  garments which they received at their admission to the
church
  (see
BAPTISM
 ) for eight days, from Easter eve till the Sunday after Easter (hence called Dominica in albis), but they were subject to strict supervision for some time longer and, on the authority of r Tim. iii. 6, were generally held ineligible for election as bishops, a
rule
  to which, however, history shows some notable exceptions, as in the cases of St
Ambrose
  at
Milan
  in 374 and Synesius of Cyrene at Ptolemais in 409, who were chosen bishops before they were even baptized. By the council of Nicaea (325) this
rule
  was extended to the priest-hood. The ancient discipline is still maintained in the Roman Church, and applies to converts from Christian sects as well as to those from heathenism. The period, however, is deter-
mined
  by circumstances. The
term
  " neophyte " is also some-times applied in the Roman Church to newly ordained priests, and eventhough rarelyto novices of a religious order. In a transferred sense the word is also given to one beginning to learn any new subject.
See Bergier, Dict. de theologie, &v.; Martigny, Dict. des antiquites, pp. 433435; Siegel, Christliche Alterthumer, iii. 17 seq. ; Riddle, Christ. Antiquities, pp. 313, 522 ; Walcott, Sacred Archaeology, s.v.


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