GERARD OF CAMBRAI. - Theologian and bishop, b. at Liège ca. 975, d. March 14, 1051. A disciple of Gerbert (Sylvester II), he became a cleric of Reims, then chaplain of Henry II, who, in 1012, wished him to be bishop of Arras and Cambrai.

An active man, he founded monasteries, attended synods, and in 1025 held the Council of Arras (atrebatense), whose acts have remained famous for a clear and extensive exposition, in 28 chapters, of the doctrine on the hierarchy, on the Sacraments and particularly on the Eucharist (PL. 142, 1270-1313), which at that moment was denied by a heterodox group imbued with Manichaeism (the first symptoms of Catharism). Some letters of his also survive (PL. 142, 1313-23), in the first of which he treats of excommunication.

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BIBL.: Hurter, I, coll. 1013-14; F. Tocco, L'eresia nel medioevo, Florence 1884, p. 113; F. Béguinot, La Très Ste Eucharistie, I, Paris 1902, pp. 318-36; I. Geiselmann, Die Eucharistielehre der Vorscholastik, Paderborn 1926, pp. 284-86.

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Gerard of Cambrai

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