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Canon 27 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) orders to depose and punish with penance clerics who fornicated.
Canon 27
 
De fornicatoribus clericis.
 
Si quis presbyter aut diaconus fuerit fornicatus aut moechatus, proiciatur et agat poenitentiam.
 
(ed. Barlowe 1950: 132)
Canon 27
 
On the clerics who fornicated.
 
If a presbyter or deacon has fornicated or commited adultery, he shall be removed and do penance.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canon 1 of the Council of Neocaesarea in AD 315.

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), Neocaesarea (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:

Sexual life - Sexual activity
    Sexual life - Extramarital
      Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
        Described by a title - Clericus
          Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
            Administration of justice - Demotion
              Administration of justice - Penance
                Private law - Ecclesiastical
                  Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1093, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1093
                  Record by: Marta Szada
                  last edited: 2020-03-12 20:35:41
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