Preface -- Table of Contents -- Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity: Structures and Perspectives -- Keynote Lectures -- Episcopal Succession in Antioch in the Sixth Century -- The Election of Ambrose of Milan -- Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Syrian Episcopal Elections -- L'élection d'archevêques diphysites au trône alexandrin (451-482): une désignation artificielle et contrainte? -- Bischofswahl und Bischofsernennung im Synodicon Orientale -- La royauté mérovingienne et les élections épiscopales au VIe siècle -- Canonical Legislation on the Ordination of Bishops: Innocent I's Letter to Victricius of Rouen -- Christlicher Euergetismus ob honorem? Die Einsetzung von Klerikern in ihre Ämter und die von diesen vorangetriebenen Bauprojekte -- Clerical Marriage and Episcopal Elections in the Latin West: From Siricius to Leo I -- The Saint and the Bishop: Severinus of Noricum -- Bishops and Clerics during the Fourth Century: Numbers and Their Implications -- The Rhetoric of Rules and the Rule of Consensus -- Les élections épiscopates en Égypte aux VIe- VIIe siècles -- Bischofswahlen in Rom (3.-6. Jh.): Bedingungen - Akteure - Verfahren -- Short Papers -- Les élections épiscopales en Orient sous Sévère d'Antioche (512-518) -- ...ut sancto sanctus succederet... oder: Haben Heilige eine Wahl? Ein Ausblick auf die frühmittelalterliche Bischofserhebung in den Viten heiliger Bischöfe -- Bishop Pesynthios of Koptos (Egypt): "He did not pursue the honour, but it was the honour that pursued him" -- An Extraordinary Bishop: Eusebius of Caesarea in Cappadocia -- The Election and Deposition of Meletius of Antioch: The Fall of an Integrative Bishop -- Haeres Petri: Kontinuitat und Wandel in der Bischofsnachfolge des Siricius von Rom.

Episcopal Succession as Criterion of Communion: The Rise of Rival Episcopal Genealogies in Alexandria according to Liberatus of Carthage -- Epiphanius of Cyprus vs. John of Jerusalem: An Improper Ordination and the Escalation of the Origenist Controversy -- Episcopal Elections in Gaul: The Normative View of the Concilia Galliae versus the Narrative Accounts -- Ecclesia non abhorret a sanguine. Les élections épiscopales dans l'Église arménienne aux IVe-Ve siècles -- Education, Humility and Choosing Ideal Bishops in Late Antiquity -- Zum Beispiel Proklos von Konstantinopel. Über Chancen und Grenzen des spätantiken Bischofsamtes -- The Election of Sahak I as Catholicos of the Armenian Church -- Procedure and Hierarchy: Models of Episcopal Election in Late Antique Conciliar and Papal Rule making -- Episcopal Self-Presentation: Sidonius Apollinaris and the Episcopal Election in Bourges AD 470 -- The Election of Paul the Jew (519) in Light of the Theopaschite Controversy -- List of Authors -- Indices -- Index nominum -- Index rerum -- Index locorum.