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Simony (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on simony, the sale of ecclesiastical offices or spiritual power, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on simony, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for Simon Magus in Acts 8:9 to 24, the Synod of Elvira's forty eighth canon, Nicaea and Chalcedon, Pope Gregory the First's popularizing of the term simoniac heresy, the Investiture Controversy, and canon 149 section 3 of the Code of Canon Law.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simony
Source Typereference
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- Doctrines, 80 claims: 76 well-attested, 4 general references.
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