Letters — Letter 137

St. Leo the Great

Source: NPNF Series 2, Volume XII (Schaff, 1895) — public domain via CCEL.

1. Chapter 1

To the same, and on the same day.

(On the subject of Easter, acknowledging the trouble Proterius has taken,--to which is joined a request that the accounts of the oeconomi should be audited by priests, not lay persons.) __________________________________________________________________

OEconomi(stewards) were officers appointed to manage the revenues of each diocese under the bishops' direction, when the bishops and their archdeacons had enough to do otherwise: cf. Bingham, Antiq., Bk. III. chap. xii. __________________________________________________________________