Canon 22 of the Council of Épaone (Gaul, AD 517) forces presbyters who have committed a capital crime to enter a monastery; they will be stripped of all ecclesiastical honours but can receive communion as long as they live in a monastery.
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Canon 22
Si diaconus aut presbyter crimen capitale conmiserit, ab officii honore dipositus in monasterio retrudatur, ibi tantummodo quamdiu uixerit cummunione sumenda.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 29-30)
Canon 22
If a deacon or a presbyter commits a capital crime, he should be stripped of the honour of his office and forced to [enter] a monastery; only there will he be able to obtain communion as long as he lives.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Épaone
About the source:
Title: Council of Épaone 517, Concilium Epaonense anno 517 Origin: Épaone (Gaul) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Just as the Council of Agde was held in 506 in the Visigothic kingdom and the First Council of Orléans in 511 in the Frankish realm, the Council of Épaone gathered bishops from the lands ruled by the Burgundians. The direct impulse for the council was the ascension to the throne of Sigismund in 516. The new king, unlike his Arian predecessors, followed the Catholic creed. Avitus, metropolitan of Vienne, and Viventiolus, metropolitan of Lyons, asked the bishops to convene on the day of 6th September 517 in Épaone, the exact location of which is unknown. It was most probably situated in the province of Vienne, possibly near present-day Anneyron or Saint-Maurice-l`Exil. The council gathered 24 bishops and one presbyter. It seems that also some other clerics and laymen attended the sessions.
Edition:
C. de Clercq ed., Concilia Galliae a. 511-a. 695, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148 A, Turnhout 1963.
Translation:
J. Gaudemet, B. Basdevant, Les canons des conciles mérovingiens VIe-VIIe siècles, Sources chrétiennes 353, Paris 1989.
Categories:
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Impediments or requisits for the office - Improper/Immoral behaviour
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
Administration of justice - Demotion
Monastic or common life
Administration of justice - Imprisonment
Equal prerogatives of presbyters and deacons
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1157, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1157
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