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Canon 6 of the Second Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 533) orders that when the bishop dies a bishop from another city who would come to bury him should choose a presbyter to guard the Church property until the new bishop is elected.
Canon 6
 
Vt episcopus, qui ad sepeliendum episcopum uenerit, euocatis presbyteris in unum domum ecclesiae adeat discriptamque idoneis personis custodiendam sub integra diligentia derelinquat, ut res ecclesiae ullorum improbitate non pereant.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 99-100)
Canon 6
 
That a bishop who comes [to another city] to bury a bishop should, after gathering all presbyters in one place, take possession of the house of the church, and leave in the custody of suitable men chosen with the utmost care, so that the property of the Church would suffer no harm.
 
(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Discussion:

It seems that the men put in charge of the Church until the next bishop is elected were chosen among the presbyters.

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Orléans

About the source:

Title: The Second Council of Orléans, Concilium Aurelianense II anno 533
Origin: Orléans (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
This council convened on the 23rd of June of 533 in Orléans under the auspices of three kings, sons of the late Clovis I: Theuderic I of Metz, Childebert I of Paris, and Clothar I of Soissons. The city of Orléans had probably been chosen due to its at least partial neutrality as it belonged originally to the fourth son of Clovis I, Chlodomer I, who died in 524, and whose kingdom was annexed by Clothar I. The council gathered five metropolitans, twenty-one other bishops, and five presbyters representing their bishops.
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
    Ecclesiastical administration - Administering Church property
      Public law - Ecclesiastical
        Relation with - Another presbyter
          Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
            Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1263, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1263
            Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
            last edited: 2018-07-31 11:54:54
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