Can an ecumenical council proclaim a Doctor of the Church?

[CyrilSebastian]

In reading about the title of Doctor of the Church, one statement said: "No ecumenical council has yet exercised the perogative of proclaiming a ‘Doctor of the Church’. Please explain the statement.

 

[agnes_therese]

In reading about the title of Doctor of the Church, one statement said: "No ecumenical council has yet exercised the perogative of proclaiming a ‘Doctor of the Church’. Please explain the statement.

Without source & context? Not even gonna try.

 

[Pilgrim1701]

I’ll take the bait. Considering its an ecumenical council, and the pope is on board, I’d hazard a guess and say yes, if it was a topic that was discussed and agreed upon:shrug:
After all ecumenical councils have defined dogmas, did all the doctors, their writings and contributions aside, define dogmas?

 

[JReducation]

I don’t think that there is a rule on this. However, it would be reasonable to believe that the duty falls on the pope. A doctor is a teacher. The papacy is the teaching office of the Church. A council can only teach what the pope approves. The pope is not beneath the council. He is above the council. Logic would say that even if a council proposed to declare that a certain person is a teacher of the faith, that the pope has to approve it. In the end, we get back to the same thing. The duty falls on the pope.

It is important to remember that doctors are not infallible. Doctors have taught error. Aquinas taught a number of them. He is our best doctor. There is a tendency in Traddom to say that because such and such a doctor said that the up is down, it must be so. It’s only so if the Church espouses that up is down.