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Canon 7 of the First Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 511) forbids abbots and presbyters from asking the king for benefices without the commendation of their bishops.
Canon 7
 
Abbatibus, presbyteris omnique clero uel in relegionis professione uiuentibus sine discussione uel commendatione episcoporum pro petendis beneficiis ad domnus uenire non liceat. Quod si quisqui praesumserit, tam diu loci sui honore et communione priuetur, donec per poenitentiam plenam eius satisfactionem sacerdos accipiat.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 7)
Canon 7
 
No abbots (abbates), presbyters or any clergy or those living in the religious profession may come to the king to ask for benefices without the support and commendation of [their] bishops. If any one dares to do so, he will be deprived of his honour and communion, until his priest will receive his reparation through full penance.
 
(trans. Hillgarth 1986: 100-101, changed by J. Szafranowski)

Discussion:

The title abbates may denote here both presbyters responsible for basilicas and monastic superiors. More on presbyters described as abbates, see Pietri 1983.

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Orléans

About the source:

Title: First Council of Orléans 511, Concilium Aurelianense anno 511
Origin: Orléans (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The First Council of Orléans gathered on the 10th of July 511 under the auspices of King Clovis I, four years after his conquest of Aquitaine from the hands of the Visigoths. It seems that Clovis wanted the bishops he convened to issue ecclesiastical laws that could apply to both his new and old subjects, people of Roman and Germanic descent alike. The 31 canons of this council are preceded by the letter from the bishops to Clovis in which they ask for his confirmation of their decrees. The council was attended by 32 bishops, including five metropolitans: Cyprian of Bordeaux (probably presiding), Tetradius of Bourges, Licinius of Tours, Leontius of Eauze, and Gildared of Rouen.
Edition:
C. de Clercq ed., Concilia Galliae a. 511-a. 695, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148 A, Turnhout 1963.
 
Translation:
J.N. Hillgarth, Christianity and paganism, 350-750: the conversion of Western Europe, Philadelphia 1986.
J. Gaudemet, B. Basdevant, Les canons des conciles mérovingiens VIe-VIIe siècles, Sources chrétiennes 353, Paris 1989.
Bibliography:
L. Pietri, Les abbés de basilique dans la Gaule du VIe siècle, "Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France" 69 (1983), pp. 5-28.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
    Described by a title - Abba
      Ritual activity - Reconciliation/Administering penance
        Public law - Ecclesiastical
          Economic status and activity - Gift
            Patronage/Investiture
              Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
                Relation with - Monarch and royal/imperial family
                  Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
                    Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema
                      Administration of justice - Suspension
                        Livelihood/income
                          Administration of justice - Penance
                            Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1040, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1040
                            Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
                            last edited: 2018-11-13 12:53:12
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