Event Factoid
https://spear-prosop.org/3150-3Event Factoid:
Severus of
Antioch and Anonymi 3729 exchanged letters
on questions of whether or not there would be sufficient ordained clergy to adminster
the Lord's Supper and baptism to the women. Severus of
Antioch states that deaconnesses may administer baptism to women and male
presbyters or deacons may administer the Lord's Supper.
Sources:
- Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac
Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part I: Letters I.1-II.3, vol. 2.1 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1903), p: 193-94.
