Event: Appointment/consecration/elevation/ordination of bishopAugustine 1.consecration of Laurence 2

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Description Augustine 1 consecrated Laurence 2 during his lifetime lest, when he was dead, the church might begin to falter if deprived of its shepherd even for an hour.
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*Bede 1 explains this exception to canon law: no successor to a bishopric should be elected during the reign of his predecessor. The rule was broken when there was a good reason. See @Colgrave & Mynors, pp. 144-5, n. 2. *Bede also provides a comparison between Augustine 1 and St Peter.

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