Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 1090
Canon 26 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids to ordain men who have married a widow or a divorcee, murderers and accessories to murder.
Canon 26
 
De his qui viduas aut dimissas ducunt aut in malis consiliis mixti sunt.
 
Si quis viduam aut ab alio dimissam duxerit, non admittatur ad clerum, aut si obrepsit deiciatur. Similiter si homicidii aut facto aut praecepto aut consilio aut adsensione post baptismum conscius fuerit, et per aliquam subreptionem ad clericatum venerit, deiciatur et in finem vitae suae communionem recipiat.
 
(ed. Barlowe 1950: 131)
Canon 26
 
On those who married widows or divorcees, or were involved in the wicked devices.
 
If someone marry a widow or a divorcee, he shall not be admitted to the clergy, and if he surreptitiously got admitted, he shall be deposed. Similarly, if one was involved in the homicide - he did it, planned it, adviced it or allowed it to happen, after the baptism, and got surreptitiously to the clerical order, he shall be deposed and he shall receive communion only in the end of his life.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canon 17 in the Canons of the Apostles (4th c.).

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Braga

About the source:

Author: Martin of Braga
Title: Collectio orientalium canonum, seu Capitula Martini, Capitula Martini, Collection of the Eastern canons
Origin: Braga (Iberian Peninsula), East
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
In the manuscript tradition the canons of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 572 are followed by the Eastern canons collected and translated into Latin by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula). He was using a Greek collection, impossible to identify with any of the collections known today, which gathered the canons of the several Eastern councils. Martin quotes also the canons of the First Council of Toledo AD 400. Martin dedicated his work to Bishop Nitigisius of Lugo (Iberian Peninsula). Those two bishops met on the Second Council of Braga, and possibly the collection was composed for this occasion (Barlowe 1950: 84-87).
Edition:
C. Barlowe ed., Martini episcopi Bracarensis opera omnia, New Haven 1950.

Categories:

Family life - Marriage
    Family life - More than one marriage
      Described by a title - Clericus
        Impediments or requisits for the office - Improper/Immoral behaviour
          Impediments or requisits for the office - Marriage
            Public law - Ecclesiastical
              Relation with - Wife
                Relation with - Woman
                  Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
                    Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema
                      Administration of justice - Demotion
                        Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1090, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1090