He cites instances in which priests served as bishops without episcopal ordination, acting only with the potestas bestowed by the jurisdictional authority of Rome. |
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It was a condition of the patria potestas that the child should be born in marriage. |
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The center of the early social structure was the family, which was not only marked by blood relations but also by the legally constructed relation of patria potestas. |
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That came later, as did the jealously guarded tribunicia potestas. |
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