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Canon 7

De publicatione concilii.

Grandis populo datur emendationis correctio, si gesta synodalia dum quandoque peragantur relatione pontificum in suis parrochiis publicantur. Et ideo plena decernimus unanimitate conexi, ut dum in qualibet provincia concilium agitatur, unusquisque episcoporum ammonitionibus suis infra sex mensium spacia omnes abbates presbyteres diacones atque clericos seu etiam omne conventum civitatis ipsius, ubi praesse dinoscitur, necnon et cunctam dioecesis suae plebem adgregare nequaquam moretur, quatenus coram eis publice omnia reserata de his, quae eodem anno in concilio acta vel definita extiterint, plenissime notiores efficiantur. [...]

In what follows, the canon forbids to change anything in the acts and canons of the council, and imposes punishments on bishops who do such thing.

(ed. Vives 1963: 504-505)

Canon 7

On the publication of the council.

The great amending reform is given to the people when the proceedings of the synod that just has finished are published by the pontiffs in their dioceses. Therefore, joined in unanimity, we decree that in whatever province a council has been held, every bishop will gather all the abbots, presbyters, deacons, clerics, and also the congregation of the city over which he is known to preside, within six months and he will not stole to gather also the people of his diocese in order to inform them fully in public about revealed things that has been done and decreed at the council that year. [...]

In what follows, the canon forbids to change anything in the acts and canons of the council, and imposes punishments on bishops who would do such thing.

(trans. M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Toledo

About the source:

Title: Concilium Toletanum XVI a. 693, Concilium XVI Toletanum a. 693, Sixteenth Council of Toledo in 693 AD
Origin: Toledo (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The Sixteenth Council of Toledo gathered on 2 May AD 693 during the reign of King Egica. 54 bishops were present, three bishops sent representatives. There were also the abbots and lay dignitaries present. The tomus of Egica, which precedes the creed and canons in the acts, was issued one week before the council on 25 April (Orlandis, Ramos-Lissón 1986: 478-480). The council convened in the afthermath of the coup against Egica organized by Bishop Sisebert of Toledo (Collins 2004: 106-107).

Edition:

J. Vives ed., Concilios visigóticos e hispano-romanos, Barcelona-Madrid 1963.

Bibliography:

R. Collins, Visigothic Spain, 409-711, Oxford 2004.

P.D. King, Law and Society in the Visigothic Kingdom, Cambridge 1972.

J. Orlandis, D. Ramos-Lissón, Historia de los concilios de la España romana y visigoda, Pamplona 1986.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Education - Knowledge of canons

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1228, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1228