Severian of Gabala as a Source for the Cathedral Rite of Constantinople Around the Year 400

Abstract

The early Greek Church Fathers may be used, with caution, to reconstruct early liturgy. An example of this are the homilies of Severian of Gabala, which very explicitly refer to biblical lections in the service and show that parts of the Old Testament lectionary, also called prophetologion, go back to AD 400, if not earlier.