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Canon 1 of the Second Council of Vaison (Gaul, AD 529) orders the presbyters serving in the parishes to accommodate unmarried lectors, following the practice introduced in Italy. The presbyters should teach them psalmody, the Holy Scripture, and canon law, thus grooming their successors in presbyterate.
Canon 1
 
Hoc placuit, ut omnes presbyteri, qui sunt in parrocas constituti, secundum consuetudinem, quam per totam Italiam satis salubriter teneri cognouemus, iuniores lectores, quantoscumque sine uxoribus habuerent, secum in domo, ubi ipsi habitare uidentur, recipiant et eos quomodo boni patres spiritaliter nutrientes psalmis parare, diuinis lectionibus insistere et in lege Domini erudire contendant, ut et sibi dignos successores prouideant et a Domino proemia aeterna recipiant. Cum uero ad aetatem perfectam peruenerint, si alequis eorum pro carnis fragilitate uxorem habere uoluerit, potestas ei ducendi coniugium non negetur.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 78)
Canon 1
 
We decree that all presbyters who are positioned in the parishes should accomodate the young lectors (those of them who live without wives) in their houses, following the practice that we learned was introduced throughout Italy and has been quite beneficiary. Nourishing them spiritually just as good fathers do, [these presbyters] should instruct them how to sing psalms and acquaint oneself with the Holy Scripture and the law of the Lord. Thus, they will groom worthy successors for themselves and receive an eternal reward from the Lord. When [those lectors] reach the perfect age, if any of them would like to have a wife due to fragility of the flesh, he should not be deprived of the right to marry.
 
(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Vaison

About the source:

Title: The second council of Vaison, Concilium Vasense anno 529
Origin: Vaison (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
This council convened on 5 November 529 in Vaison. The council was presided by Caesarius of Arles and gathered only five other bishops (quite curiously, Bishop Aletius of Vaison itself was absent). Of the council`s five canons, three try to introduce the practices of foreign Churches to Gaul.
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:

Education - Home education
    Food/Clothes/Housing - Type of housing
      Former ecclesiastical career - Lower clergy
        Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter
          Functions within the Church - Rural presbyter
            Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
              Monastic or common life - Clerical community
                Ritual activity - Divine office/Liturgy of the hours
                  Public law - Ecclesiastical
                    Relation with - Lower cleric
                      Devotion - Reading the Bible and devotional literature
                        Pastoral activity - Teaching
                          Ritual activity - Chanting
                            Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1256, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1256
                            Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
                            last edited: 2018-04-08 15:20:14
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