OTÁZKA LITURGICKÝCH KOMPETENCIÍ BISKUPOV V NESKOROM STREDOVEKU V UHORSKU. PRÍPAD HLAVNÉHO OLTÁRA OD MAJSTRA PAVLA V BAZILIKE SV. JAKUBA V LEVOČI

The aim of the study is to clarify the issue of liturgical competences of bishops in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in relation to the benediction and consecration of sacral objects. The study deals with the analysis of clerical hierarchy of the historical Spiš region at the beginning of the 16th century as well as with the case of the discovery of reliquary put into the altar by Master Paul in St Jacob’s Basilica in Levoča during the consecration. Based on the new interpretation of this discovery and by means of liturgical texts serving during the consecration ceremony, it specifies the date of the altar’s origin. It clarifies the issue of liturgical competences of Hungarian bishops in the Middle Ages as well as the issue of the inceptions of the suffragan bishop’s service in the archdiocese of Esztergom at the beginning of the 16th century.