TY - JOUR
AU - Barrell, A. D. M.
AB -  The Imtes Review, Volume 46, No.2, Autumn 1995, 116-38 A. D. M. Barrell The papal bull Cum Universi is rightly seen as a milestone in the history of the Scottish church. By it an entity described as Scotticana ecclesia, consisting of the dioceses of St Andrews, Glasgow, Dunkeld, Dunblane, Brechin. Aberdeen. Moray, Ross and Caithness, was declared to be a special daughter of the apostolic see with no intermediary; no one could impose interdict or excommunication in the kingdom of Scotland except the pope or a legate a latere, and no foreigner could be a legate there unless specially sent by the pope. Disputes which arose within the realm of Scotland could not be heard outside it unless there was an appeal to the Holy See. The liberties of the realm and its churches, granted by previous popes, were confirmed. Cum universi ended the claims of the archbishop of York to metropolitan jurisdiction in Scotland and his attempted involvement there in his capacity as legate in his province, and set up an independent national church, albeit one with no local figurehead. Earlier scholarly debates over the date of this privilege have subsided, and the bull is nowadays ascribed 
TI - The background to Cum universi : Scoto-papal relations, 1159-1192
JF - Innes Review
DO - 10.3366/inr.1995.46.2.116
DA - 1995-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/edinburgh-university-press/the-background-to-cum-universi-scoto-papal-relations-1159-1192-ot9eYiLTay
SP - 116
EP - 138
VL - 46
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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