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'''Emmanuel Schelstrate''' (1649 – 6 April 1692) was a [[Catholic]] [[theologian]] and ecclesiastical historian.

== Life ==

Schelstrate was born at [[Antwerp]] in 1649. While he was a canon of the cathedral of Antwerp, he was called to [[Rome]] by [[Pope Innocent IX]] and made an assistant librarian of the [[Vatican Library]]. 

He died at Rome on 6 April 1692.

== Works ==

Schelstrate was a fine scholar in early ecclesiastical history and became the accredited defender of the [[papal]] supremacy. For this reason his writings have often been very severely judged. 

His ''Antiquitas illustrata circa concilia generalia et provincialia'' (Antwerp, 1678) contains decrees of the popes and various matters of Catholic church history; in it he attacked what he, in accord with the Church in Rome, viewed as the errors of [[Jean Launoy]] regarding the primacy of Rome. Schelstrate was only able to issue two volumes of a second edition which he had planned on a large scale (1692 and 1697). 

Schelstrate carried on controversies with [[Antoine Arnauld|Arnauld]] and [[Louis Maimbourg]] concerning the authority of the general councils and of the popes; he opposed the 1682 ''[[Declaration of the Clergy of France]]'', codifying the principles of [[Gallicanism]]. Schelstrate wrote a treatise on the origin of the [[Anglican Church]] in a controversy with [[Edward Stillingfleet]], [[Dean (religion)|Dean]] of [[St Paul's Cathedral]], [[London]]. He published numerous other works.<ref name="cath enc">{{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Emmanuel Schelstrate |inline=1 |last1=Maere |first1=René|year=1912|volume=13}}</ref>



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