Chartophylax

Chartophylax
   A church or monastic archivist, responsible for official documents, letters, and other records. The secular counterpart was the chartoularios (q.v.). Alexios I Komnenos (q.v.) supported the right of the chartophylax of Hagia Sophia (q.v.) to preside over the patriarchal synod of Constantinople (qq.v.) in the patriarch's absence, something Patriarch Nicholas III Grammatikos (q.v.) opposed as an infringement of his own power. John XI Bekkos (q.v.) was a chartophylax before becoming patriarch under Michael VIII (qq.v.).

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  • CHARTOPHYLAX — in Ecclesia Constantinopolitana, custos erat annuli Patriarchalis, quem ille a Patriatcha sollenniter acceptum, in pectore gestabat; ut dictum: quemadmodum Magno Logothetae vel etiam Accubitori palae, cura annuli vel sigilli, quô literae… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • Chartophylax — (griech.), Urkundenbewahrer …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Chartophylax — A chartophylax (Greek: χαρτοφύλαξ, from χάρτα, document + φύλαξ, guard, keeper ), sometimes also referred to as a chartoularios, was an ecclesiastical officer in charge of official documents and records in the Greek Orthodox Church in Byzantine… …   Wikipedia

  • CHARTOPHYLAX et CHARTULARIUS — Qui publicas tabulas, epistolas et instrumenta curabant, Scriniarii, vulgo Registratores. Hic autem in palatio Principis minister fuit, ille in Ecclesia, ut perspicue Codinus. Confunduntur tamen saepissime: Et Gregorius M. Ep. ad Maxim. Episcop.… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • chartophylax — /kahr tof euh laks /, n. Gk. Orth. Ch. an official who serves chiefly as the chancellor and archivist of a diocese. [1875 80; < LGk, Gk, equiv. to charto (see CHARTOPHYLACIUM + phýlax watcher, guard] * * * …   Universalium

  • chartophylax — char·toph·y·lax …   English syllables

  • chartophylax — /kartofslacks/ In old European law, a keeper of records or public instruments; a chartulary; a registrar …   Black's law dictionary

  • chartophylax — /kartofslacks/ In old European law, a keeper of records or public instruments; a chartulary; a registrar …   Black's law dictionary

  • chartophylax — kärˈtäphəˌlaks noun ( es) Etymology: Late Greek, from Greek charto (from chartēs paper) + Greek phylax guard more at card : a chancellor of a bishop or diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church who serves as an archivist and has certain… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Chartulary — (pronEng|ˈkaɹʧʊˌlɛɹi) renders two Latin words, for a collection of charters viz. an officer in charge of it.ChartulariumA Cartularium or Chartularium, also called Pancarta and Codex Diplomaticus, is a medieval manuscript volume or roll ( rotulus… …   Wikipedia

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