Antiquity
Abolition of the Patriarchate of Tiberias
429·Empire romain d'Orient
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the tax of the *aurum coronarium* paid until then to the patriarch reverts to the imperial treasury
Upon the death of Gamaliel VI, the last patriarch, the Eastern Roman Empire suppressed the office rather than filling it. The patriarchate of Tiberias had served for three centuries as the recognized authority for all the communities of the Empire: it appointed the apostles, determined the calendar, and levied an annual contribution.
A constitution assigned to the imperial treasury the *aurum coronarium* that the communities had hitherto paid to the patriarch. The suppression was thus not merely honorific: it deprived Western Judaism of its last central institution and transformed its internal tax into a source of state revenue.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Near and Middle East
- Country :
- Empire byzantin
Code théodosien ; Novelles de Théodose II ; inscriptions de Tibériade.