Quiricus (died January 680) was the

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from about 667 until his death. He may be identical to Bishop

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, who does not appear as bishop there after 667. If so, his transfer to Toledo was contrary to

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, but would demonstrate the growing importance of Toledo in the Visigothic church. In 672, in accordance with the tenth canon of the

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, Quiricus anointed the duly elected Wamba after the death of

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.Collins, ''Visigothic Spain'', 93. In 675 he presided over the Eleventh Council of Toledo. In 681 the ecumenical

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repudiated

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and affirmed the doctrine of dythelitism, that

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had two wills. A decision of the council was sent to Quiricus, but he had died by the time it reached Spain.

Sources

Collins, Roger Roger J. H. Collins (born 2 September 1949) is an England, English medievalist, currently an honorary fellow in history at the University of Edinburgh. Collins studied at the University of Oxford (The Queen's College, Oxford, Queen's and Saint ...

. ''Visigothic Spain, 409–711''. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. . *

Thompson, E. A. Edward Arthur Thompson (22 May 1914 – 1 January 1994) was an Irish-born British Marxist historian of classics and medieval studies. He was professor and director of the classics department at the University of Nottingham from 1948 to 1979, ...

''The Goths in Spain''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quiricus 680 deaths Archbishops of Toledo 7th-century archbishops Year of birth unknown