persons of Christ and the Apostles. The connotation is still neither of delegation nor of agency; the church leaders are seen as the embodiment and image of Christ and the Apostles, and occupy their place per successionem. At the same time, medieval jurists begin to use the term for the personification of collective life. A community although not a human being, is to be regarded as a person (persona repraesentata, repraesenta unam personam, antum personae repraesentat vicem). The stress is on the fictive nature of the connection: not a real person but a person by representation only (persona non vera sed repraesentate)