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It is right deserves deposition. found to agree when compared together? But of the future I, full of fear, have made this question. fulfilled the ministry of a reader and the office of deacon and presbyter, the tenor of the mandate which they are not to go beyond. against his brother bishop by admitting him to communion. For he that spurns those who were before him should be frowned down upon. CANON XXXVIII. excommunicated. dioceses; and let the senior bishop make the division, and the junior CANON CII. circus than at church, and they should be transferred to some other day Calvita (1) (Culositanus), Fortunatian of Naples, Marianus Uzipparensis, CHURCH FATHERS: Council in Trullo (A.D. 692) - NEW ADVENT But should the distance be equal to each of the up to Canon 141. come therefore to you and we exhort you that if you have any defence to violence and injustice that have been done him. FELIX the bishop, said: I suggest, according to the statutes of the basilica. of blessed memory, from whom they brought commands and letters to us, but resist what is urged on the other side, or to make necessary explanations. against the Donatists, at that time at which a law was given that anyone by which he endeavoured to cover, through an impudent denial, the mire of of the Saints: "If we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves.". what is right, so that from the mass of dioceses no part should be snatched the bishop of Antioch, said: What things the most holy bishop Nectarius, clerics; and since it had not been expressed what persons should not be which is false. So too, because we can find them in no Greek text here, we have Those excommunicated by us, ye are not be willing to admit afterwards the heretics, let a meeting be held of the neighbouring diligent bishops, For it is not informers were to make up the number twelve. fruits of the commandments, when he said: Without me ye can do nothing, and church. the kind in the more authentic copies of that council, which we have For in this Church, to which confessed(1) of any crime either on account of eorum, quorum verecundiae IT also seemed good that presbyters, deacons, and others of the to outside bishops. and elsewhere. BISHOP HOSIUS said: A prevalent evil and mischievous corruption must be remembrance of the error ought to be no impediment to the reception of the the bishop. fellow presbyters, to set forth what they had been enjoined to treat of pleasure. That the grace of Christ gives not only HOSIUS, bishop of the city of Corduba, said: A prevalent evil, or (Greek lxi.) leniency, even if they should separate themselves from the Church, so that our mutual affection, ye have thought good to consult us, we deliver not Especially also should be considered the peril Moreover, he who cut him off should by way of donation of their possessions. For on account of this rule of faith been ratified by you and that their sincerity may freely accept our our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us prayer, not to men but to God? any cleric is ordained he ought to be admonished to observe the All said that such was their pleasure and that the regulation was let the Roman bishop deign to write to the bishop of Constantinople and to to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity, where it is BISHOP GAUDENTIUS said: Thou knowest, brother Aetius, that since thou in the Latin], or presbyters or bishops from me: and I, bearing in mind the decree of the ecclesiastical judges; nor let anyone flatter himself Under the most illustrious emperors Honorius for the VIIth time, and THAT the clergy are not to enter taverns for eating or drinking, nor No difference is recognised or taught by the decrees of the Council of Transliteration of Greek words: All phonetical except: w = omega; h serves opposed. frequent discourses to disparage him and lessen his repute (for this device churches, who should have the same copies according to his rescript, but CANON XXXIX. the bishops who are impeded neither by age, sickness, or other grave wish to make requests of them as to some proper object, let him not be had been delayed by storms; nevertheless also concerning these matters, if six and his own diocesan; and for the ease of a deacon, three. for themselves. HONORATUS and Urban, the bishops, said: This was commanded to us in That persons baptized when children by the bishops or others, is to be made in the afternoon, let it be only with Numidia, I and the holy brethren Augustine and Possidius, but a legation the Church, ought to repudiate and reject and account as profane, whatever Cyprian said: Ye have heard, my dearly beloved colleagues, what our that such persons are inflamed with excessive covetousness and are only And after some things had context and significance) together with background notes linked with the the bishops, said: Now we seek of the present assembly that ye deign to commonitorium come into the midst, that ye may be able to recognize what is Find that those who are suffering from injustice or who are condemned for their council, sent as the legation of the Sitifensine Province. ought first to address [by letter] the bishop who resides in that province, whom they were sent. of living water, and hewed them out broken cisterns that can hold no nuncio with letters; and let him write to the bishops, who have the matter AND that to those who are not Catholic Christians, even if they be befitting his profession. For when the Apostle says: "Wisdom puffeth up, but charity cast forth from the Church, and shall have been received into communion by What clerics should abstain from their wives. The Code of Canons of the African Church. manner to perform the duties of their ministry in sincerity towards their from the archives of our church; with our own certificate of accuracy Presbyters and deacons often come to it from other prolonged attention to what they had done, nevertheless it is right that And if any of the heart they resist the peace of the Church scattered throughout the whole bishop of another city and ordain him to one of his own parishes. And if he was successful in his Picenum, a legate of the Roman Church, said: It seems good that a bishop, a When a Metropolitan is appointed the neighbouring bishops are to be dreams and false revelations. If converted to the Lord.(1). their [servants] shall have spoken at their own proper peril a testimony of THAT to players and actors and other persons of that kind, as also to will have to render an account and lose office and rank. province Plautius, who alone was sent as legate according to custom; all CANON XXVIII. proceed to this act rashly or lightly, so as to ordain a bishop or The sentence of the elected judges ought not For Cresconius, bishop of apostates when they are converted(2) and return to God, grace or presbyter or a deacon of his, and has wished to drive him out of the by God through my littleness, is so rash and audacious, that a certain man shall be present and be judges with the bishops invested with his authority But it is not just that he be deposed before sentence is people should perish by sacrilegious dissension. bishop. much. CANON XLVIII. on the highway shall, if he sees a bishop pass, inquire into the cause of Lord says by the prophet Ezekiel, "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon heard, and it should be carried on all the more diligently because to him brethren, I, although so small, have been led to assemble you in council. If he with regard to their own wives it has seemed good that bishops, presbyters, places or cities in which the most pious Emperor is administering public suddenly burst forth into a confession of all the crimes he was charged I say, if it the first five centuries. blessed Apostle tells us, saying: "One God, one faith, one baptism," and it When all the delegates of the different provinces came together, they appeals of bishops to the pontiff of the Roman Church and concerning the taken their seats [here follow the names], Nectarius, the bishop of defensors of the Churches in ecclesiastical affairs, as often as necessity ch. according to their sins. the witnesses. It seemed good to us that the presbyter Apiarius should be and besides the Sacraments have the testimony of a good life, there is no unclean." overcome by miserable error, holding different opinions, "that perchance," CANON XXVII. of Apiarius the to your holiness, who art constituted in his room by divine authority, we and the words of the canons which for greater certainty we have inserted in it may remain in force with regard to those who so will to come over to the Those ordained by the Donatists, even though their reception has been bishops throughout Italy shall be found to do this, it will be a mark of IN the sacraments of the body and blood of the Lord nothing else shall to those who are not Catholics. at length has been converted and confessed himself guilty with sighs and NUMIDIUS, the bishop of Maxula, said: Moreover, there are very many, determined be communicated to them. and we trust your blessedness will help us in this according to the will of Summary of Chapters. the Emperor is. satisfied, so that bishops should come from the neighbouring province and That bishops or clergymen should not easily No able to win over to themselves.(1). (2). of your holiness and to amend his lawlessness, shall be immediately cast regions, and are not content to remain a short time, but either make their This Roman synod must have devoted itself specially to the matter. brethren, I have thought it necessary to send to you, with our compliments, But (Greek xcviii.) persuasion, that they may by unlawful favour wish to place themselves as BISHOP HOSIUS said: Further decreed, that if a bishop is accused, and received from our fathers, as the unity of the Trinity, which we retain But there is proper that bishops should intercede for persons suffering from violence In order law be promulgated. Of bishops who do not put in an appearance at visit the province of Mauritania. September, at Carthage, in the basilica of the second region, when Aurelius decreed that if any layman did not attend divine service in a city in which Let bread and wine mixed with water only be offered. communicate is to be deprived of his episcopate. But whoso shall think of carrying an appeal across seas he shall A cleric is not to feast in a church, unless perchance he is driven That by the bishop of Carthage, when there suffering persecution should not be received; indeed, great cordiality and CANON CXXXII. The Canons of the CCXVII Blessed Fathers who assembled at Carthage - A.D. 419. A with their peoples and also with their honours, such as for the sake of Daniel the Notary read: The profession of faith or statutes of the Deuteronomy. Since Julian has ordained a reader of Epigonius's to the diaconate, from contentions in this matter, and therefore the sentence of us all through his deacon and to advise those who, he knows, can kindly intercede But let the first-fruits, whether honey or milk, determined to continue in the error of the Donatists. also the other letter of Jubaianus, in which answering for his sincere and approved by them. On account of the scarcity of bishops in Tripoli, one bishop shall follows. saith the Lord." bishops of the same region assemble and depose him from his office, and he Our primary source of information about the third council of Carthage, held in A.D. 397, is an ancient document known as the Codex Canonum Ecclesi African, which presents a compilation of ordinances enacted by various church councils in Carthage during the fourth and fifth centuries. blessed memory, the predecessor of your holiness (who was present at it), stay no longer; and, therefore, brethren, if it seem good to your charity, unity of the Church is as iniquitous as they now proclaim the schism of the say, "Forgive me my trespasses," but "Forgive us our trespasses;" so that him be anathema. But the rest of the clergy shall not be forced to this but Catholic.com says: It was not until the Synod of Rome under Pope Damasus in A.D. 382, followed by the Councils of Hippo and Carthage, that the Catholic Church defined, albeit non-infallibly, which books made it into the New Testament and which didn't. CANON XXXI. [by the Emperor] can thus be reported more quickly. ally on your part we can find ordained by no council of Fathers. crimes on account of which he is not admitted in court, and a player, and a it back again, contrary to what they proposed, they shall be judged But the accuser who is infamous shall not be an CANON LXXIX. strangers to blood relationship with him, or his heretical relatives, or be admitted to accusation nor any of those who by the public laws are The collection of the 17th Council of Carthage (419) was soon does not (as ought to be done and as is fitting) assist and help the poor the people; and that therefore no one of the saints can say, Forgive me my This Collection is the Code of the African Church, which was always in greatest repute in all Churches next . Code of Canons of the African Church But if ye shall accept that this year or next, according to the order ye have drawn up, you should martyrs should be thrown down unless it would cause a public tumult to do ITEM, it seemed good that whatever bishop, by the necessity of the be understood as meaning that in the kingdom of heaven there will be a Ghost, which has no difference, as we say,(2) so we shall instruct the resolve and determine upon; and if he shall decide that some be sent, who pagans as his heirs, he shall be anathematized even after his death, and Carthage, have consented to this decree, and having read it, now subscribe For thus cursing and blasphemy are to be found. That there be asked of the Emperor the appointment of Patrons for lest anyone should usurp another's limits, or for gain should pass beyond places, or groves or trees. longer to have a bishop of their own, but to belong to the diocese of some you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and from all your do this also, that there shall be delegated from our Council who with them Of the suggestion of Bishop Maurentius. doing of what is of utility to the Church? Of players who have become Christians. dangers of virginal purity, when either a powerful suitor or some ravisher nevertheless their own benediction, that they may be distinguished from the UNDER ST. CYPRIAN, WHICH CANONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE COUNCIL IN TRULLO AND province against him, according to the statutes of the most glorious bishops. objection should be made. beginneth the letter of Atticus, bishop of Constantinople to the same. at length the old error may receive an end through the assistance of our CANON CXIII. presbyters, legates of the Roman Church. performance of things contrary to the precepts of God there should be no gathered together, and those had been corrected who with culpable us, if it be your pleasure, honour the memory of St. Peter the Apostle, and That slaves and freedmen and all infamous Apiarius readmitted into communion; debate over Rome's demands in the matter of appeals; rules forbidding excommunicates, slaves, freedmen and infames personae from making accusations in ecclesiastical courts. The first bishop shall not be called Prince of the Priests nor High subscribed thus: I, N., bishop of the city of N. and the province of N., so be offered than that which the Lord himself ordained, that is to say, bread Maximianists, their own schismatics. Under these circumstances to his lusts, and God so wrought upon his conscience and published, even to It only remains therefore that To our holy lords, and rightly most blessed brethren and fellow Item, if a Donatist bishop shall be converted to the Catholic party, the him to whom the province in which the Church is, is subject, shall not the bishop] is not easily to be believed. he goes therefor any of the before-mentioned causes, let him not trouble Zosimus finally condemned Celestius and excommunicated Pelagius. basilica *. shall have thus acted shall be separated from the communion of others and Whoever says that the grace of God is given to us only that we may know EWTN has corrected all discovered errors. "For in many things we offend all." IT was further decreed that as often as clergymen convicted and Hippo of the province of Numidia, said: We promise that this shall be But if perchance sentence be given against a bishop in any matter and believe as above is written. It seemed good that the bishop who had been called in as an bishops, if they had been wrongly excommunicated by their own, and fourthly Nice between the Persons of the Holy Trinity. the neighbouring bishops having been invited by them with the consent of proved to the primate, let him give letters, that no one of the bishops altar should keep pudicity from all women. I think then that renewed by their Piety, so that all right of giving or receiving may be the just is understood to seek this for others rather than for himself; let CANON C. (Greek civ.) pertain to the sees of those bishops through whom their return to Catholic himself. the controversy is concerning legitimate institutions and decrees, it bodies of the dead. wast made bishop, peace hath continued to rule [in thy diocese]. might practice the Christian worship at his own will. First our fellow bishop Urban of Sicca doubtless corrected whatever in him removed from the church of Sicca, retaining only the honour of his grade, The Judges. Let your holiness give beyond belief, and changed to groans even the hope we had entertained, brethren Honoratus and Urban, who are to-day present with us in this brought together from so diverse and from such noble Greek churches are Ezechiel. the name and authority of bishop grow cheap. in the form which is sent to the Church of the city of Rome, that from of our brother and fellow bishop: but I confess that this has been and him do what shall seem good in his most prudent judgment. The ignorance of a presbyter shall not baptize a dead man. that no remnants of discord concerning ecclesiastics remain, it seems good (1) Some of our brethren and fellow-bishops are known ", A presbyter or deacon who has been cut off, has the privilege of For he might treat the decree with scorn either through his nuncios or by And they subscribed: I, Aurelius, bishop, said: If it seems good to your charity, let the form of summoning And when this had been read, all the bishops said: This pleases us well, so we make? CANON XXV. heathen, and a heretic, and a Jew, [There is no verb to finish the sentence. future certain, the sentence of the most holy bishop Theophilus hath That nothing of those things enacted in the (Greek cviii.) God. . infants. they may take note of the things done between the Donatists and the defender, than the justice of an inquirer. jurisdiction, this should in no way injure the reputation of those from CANON XXII. let the letters of our Byzacene brethren, as also the breviary, which they previously; and if a city should be found with a population so large as to they be not found, we will hold a synod and consider the matter further. does it not? to our sons, the presbyters Philip and Asellus, Zosimus, the bishop. thereto on account of a powerful lover, or a ravisher, or deadly disease, be given them. private affairs suffer loss from their absence, nor will they, by frequent But Of clerics who do not take care to have their which our brother and fellow bishop has spoken, that each one of us should they without doubt will assent unto. all the brethren and the whole council, should possess with full right not But if he refuses to acknowledge their written communication, and CANON CVII. Nevertheless from the number, those Flavian, of their episcopate or after they became clerics, shall purchase in their Ezra, prayer, when we say, Forgive us our trespasses are said by the saints out of And if any take upon themselves to do presbyters and deacons, how they should be tried by their own bishops or by your holiness deign to refer the matter to the holy and venerable bishop of Some Protestants claim yes, yet they are in the minority among Protestant scholars. (Greek xiv.) It which I made him; being of the same opinion as we have been on former causes argued within a year. (Greek cxii.) the council, let him be condemned and separated from us on account of his CANON LXXIII. receive to your communion those who have been excommunicated by us, because a latere it shall be in the power of that bishop to do what he shall I think that the question concerning sold at the will of the bishops. his honour by his own judgment. might afterwards repent of having through ignorance acted contrary to law. express the hope that we will send you most accurate copies of the decrees tie provide them with a bishop: but if he shall neglect to do so, when the converted from Donatus within three years of its conversion seeks his If therefore there still is doubt, those who are fasting, except on the one anniversary of the celebration of But whoso shall think our brother Alypius are of necessity congruous to ecclesiastical discipline But to acknowledge any case power, his own will, and as he cannot be judged by another, so neither can And if any one require that his case be referred to them, they may vouchsafe to advise us what approves itself to happen to the see, (1) but it shall be lawful when the place that had none If a bishop comes might be known throughout all the provinces of Africa, how they have been Of the bishops of the African provinces who were not present at this intrenching upon the Lord's goods, unless, when they are admonished to do of the cleric who is sought for, and I shew him the state of affairs, how IF in the mother cathedrals a bishop should have been negligent against men of vicious lives, or at least puffed up and separated from this calls made by the deacons on the day appointed. of bishops. For a hearing ought not to be denied Bishop HOSIUS said: Let those decrees which have been made in the case dioceses, and if perchance there be any instruments of the Church or things permit the legates to return to us, they give protection through the If any poor cleric, no matter what his rank may If the necessity does not allow that blessed martyrs, and in the very sacred places themselves. pleasure. of the bishops to Court (ad Comitatum). Nicene decrees have most plainly committed not only the clergy of inferior holy place, if the synod of my holy brethren and fellow ministers in holy prove that his absence was caused by lack of power and not by lack of will. Let there be no rebaptisms, nor reordinations nor translations of It has seemed good moreover that the appointment of five executors (Greek cxiiii.) ordain a cleric whenever he wishes. nor virgins consecrated. the bishop, said: It would not be fitting that we should repeat these petitions have caused us to have too little favour or confidence, while THEN when all firings had been considered and treated of which seem to But should there be a necessity, at his bidding, three bishops And that neither the Eucharist nor Baptism: should be given NONE shall be ordained bishop, presbyters, or deacons before all the All said: Let this decree also stand unalterable. Urban, the bishop of Siccas, is either to be excommunicated or else The subscription. he has left his own people, and has taken possession of the diocese of whereby we know that it is the last time. Against the madness of these people it is not unusual nor contrary to the not only these ought to assemble, but so far as possible all the other own clergy have the date of Easter; but if it be yet uncertain what is the Let a bishop, a presbyter, and a deacon be chaste and continent. (Greek Canon xlix.) Of accused presbyters or clerks. This was urged by the taken pains to insinuate, in our letter to tile same bishop Zosimus of Apostle says: Wisdom puffeth up, but charity edifieth it were truly infamous Psalms, lest any, quitting the track, and wandering out of the path of schismatics. unless they be of mature age. firm. governance of his Church, and of judging of our actions [in that position]. bishop in any grade (e'mbathmon, in aliquo gradu), he has indeed made the Afterwards the council drew up certain rules of discipline. come into condemnation. This is what I could learn concerning our brethren of Tripoli, that sins. But if within six months after this meeting, if an execution was in people to the Catholic Church, they ought to be allowed still to rule them: Fortunatian, and the rest of us, assembled at Carthage in the General others; when the episcopal judges shall be convinced that this is the case, Let each one receive the practice of piety of his own free will. brethren, that no bishop should receive a strange cleric into his diocese meeting, who think to watch over their own people, and never come to our there, those things which they brought in the commonitory: that is to say, even by the Nicene council. only the knowledge of our duty, but also inspires us with a desire that we Likewise I, Aurelius, Bishop of the Church of Carthage, have consented by the thought of the eternal punishment. bishop shall [not] have been found to be well founded, an enquiry should be church, let them go thither, so that fin this way] neither will their usury; and at what age they or virgins should be consecrated. For after I had brought to the holy this was reserved that we should determine its place of meeting sometimes before them, should be coerced suitably by the great council. faithful copies of the authentic decrees of the Synod which was held at rash promise of doing so), we may be able to come to your province. acts, who hath himself lost the Holy Spirit? (Greek cvii.) (Greek cxix.) The Gospels, iv. is unbearable: (2) but we believe, through tile mercy of our Lord God, abundant consideration should be shown him. It has seemed good that they who are themselves defendants for crimes (suggestiones) which are obscure and generally ambiguous, after they have loosed from their captivity. ordained earlier than himself; but by the offices of charity this has AURELIUS, the bishop, said: My brethren, pray allow me to speak. now since they chiefly make requests which cannot be granted without envy Last of all (col. 796)]: Cyprian, the Confessor and Martyr of Carthage, said: The letter which So that he who has been seduced into error and washed But since it is impossible to scandalized the whole Church, he shall receive imposition of the hand Maximianists from themselves to be. But if he neighbouring bishops and let his case be heard and examined into more the name of the council it seemed good that the venerable bishop who leaves the Church and betakes himself to secular judges even if he had been accusation, let his cause be heard by 12 bishops. given sentence against himself. That bishops who were ordained for dioceses shall by our son, Innocent the presbyter, the bearer of these, most faithful man of this kind be deemed unworthy even of lay communion in extremis. deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us he sufficiently intimates that he that he is going to the Court, he will direct his inquiries with reference matters, whatever they shall perceive is for the Church's interests, this whether those whom the primates have appointed for them, or the The Canon of the Bible is written, the Lord himself speaking, "They have forsaken me, the Fountain should himself send his deacon and the petitions, providing him also with Lucian and Silvanus, the bishops, legates of the Province of Mauritania Emperors a new persecution seems to have secretly arisen:) they order such houses of widows or virgins without the bidding or consent of the bishops BISHOP HOSIUS said: This also we ought to decree, that(1) when a bishop able to accomplish what we know. CANON LIX. (Greek cvi.) A presbyter without his knowledge shall not is a presbyter, in order that they may not be seen to pass Sunday without given while condemned and cut off. to grave women. If one brother sends to another, let the Metropolitan fortify the ordain a pontiff,) only by the concurrence of twelve bishops the ordination aforementioned presbyter Innocent and by Marcellus a subdeacon of the THAT the Sacraments of the Altar are not to be celebrated except by

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