La colaboración de los presbíteros con el obispo durante el primer milenio según el Decreto de Graciano

Resumen

This article focuses on the collaboration of priests and laity with the bishop in the tasks of pastoral government as reflected in the canonical tradition represented by Gratian's Decretum. Gratian arrange his sources not in a merely cumulative way, but according to the scholastic method of seeking concord among apparently discordant texts. From the study of these texts some conclusions can be drawn. The first of these is the clear capital function of the bishop in his diocese, a function balanced with the accent placed by various sources on the unity, harmony and communion that should exist among the different degrees of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The second one is the concern existing in the canonical tradition of the first millennium for the greatest possible participation of the People of God in some of the most solemn moments of ecclesial