Adam Parvipontanus (or Adam of Balsham) (died 1181) was an Anglo-Norman scholastic and churchman. He served as Bishop of St Asaph from 1175 until his death.
Adam was born in Balsham, near Cambridge, England. He studied with Peter Lombard at the University of Paris. He later taught at Paris; among his pupils were John of Salisbury and William of Tyre. He was elected Bishop of St Asaph in Denbighshire, Wales, in 1175. Gabriel Nuchelmans surmises that he may have been the first person to introduce the term enuntiabile, which came to be used in the same sense as dictum.
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