Editing Acephali (section)

==Other ''acephali''==

According to Brewer, acephalites were also certain bishops exempt from the jurisdiction and discipline of their patriarch.<ref name="Brewer1900" /> Cooper explains that they are "priests rejecting episcopal authority or bishops that of their metropolitans."<ref name="Cooper2013" /> Blunt described ''{{lang|la|clerici acephali}}'' as those clergy who were ordained with a [[sinecure]] [[benefice]] and who generally obtained their orders by paying for them, that is, by [[simony]]. The Council of Pavia, in 853, legislated its canons 18 and 23 against them, from which it appears, according to Blunt, that they were mostly chaplains to noblemen, that they produced much scandal in the Church, and that they disseminated many errors.<ref name="Blunt1874" />{{rp|page=109}}

{{citation needed span|text=In the [[Middle Ages]] the term denoted ''{{lang|la|[[clerici vagantes]]}}'',|date=October 2014}} clergy without title or benefice.

According to Brewer, acephalites were also a sect of [[Levellers]] during the reign of [[Henry I of England]] who acknowledged no leader.<ref name="Brewer1900" /> They were, according to ''Oxford English Dictionary Online'', "a group of free [[socager]]s having no [[feudal]] superior except the [[king]]." This usage is now considered obsolete.<ref name="OEDOnline-acephali" />