Odo de Sully
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Eudes de Sully^[1] (died 1208) was bishop of Paris, from 1198 to 1208.

He came into conflict with the French king, Philip Augustus, over Philip's intended repudiation of his wife^[2].

He continued the building work on Notre Dame de Paris. He is considered the first to have emphasized the elevation of the Host during the Catholic Mass^[3]. He in 1175 forbade communion for children^[4]. Odo's decree on custody of reserved hosts, requiring a "clean pyx" was influential in England.

In surviving decrees, he as bishop is seen addressing a number of social matters. He attempted to regulate celebrations in his cathedral^[5], Christmas^[6] and the Feast of Fools^[7]. He also tried to ban chess^[8].

He is known too for his promotion of polyphony in church, and the music of Pérotin.^[9].

He was a founder of the abbey that became Port-Royal^[10].

Family

His brother Henry de Sully was archbishop of Bourges. Their father, also Eudes of Sully, was son of Guillaume de Blois^[11].

His predecessor, Maurice de Sully, was not a close family connection.

Sources

Eudes' synodal decrees appear in volume 22 of Giovanni Domenico Mansi's Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio , 53 vols., Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlangsanstalt, 1961. More recently Odette Pontal produced a critical edition of these statutes in Les statuts synodaux Français du XIII^e siècle. Tome 1: Les Statuts de Paris et le synodal de l'ouest. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1971.

• Cheney, C. R., English Synodalia, London, Oxford University Press, 1968.

Notes

1. ^ Odo of Sully, Odo de Sully, Odon de Sully.
2. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Paris
3. ^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Elevation
4. ^ History Of The Christian Church*
5. ^ PDF, p. 174, against mummers, maskers and excessive bell-ringing.
6. ^ Ensemble Anonymus — Tempus Festorum
7. ^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Feast of Fools
8. ^ Chess - LoveToKnow 1911
9. ^ [1], in French, 1198.
10. ^ PDF
11. ^ Central France

External Links

• Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes