Canon 11 of the Council of Clermont (Gaul, AD 535) forbids bishops to receive clerics of another bishop or to ordain them priests.
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Canon 11
Nullus episcopus alterius clericum contra uoluntatem episcopi sui suscepere audeat aut sacerdotium prorogare.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 107)
Canon 11
No bishop should dare to receive a cleric of another bishop against that bishop's will or promote them to priesthood.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Discussion:
Probably, it was forbidden to ordain to either the presbyterate or the episcopacy a cleric who would not receive permission from his own bishop.
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Clermont
About the source:
Title: The Council of Clermont, Concilium Claremontanum seu Arvernense anno 535 Origin: Clermont (Gaul) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
This council convened on 8 November 535 in Clermont under the auspices of Theudebert I, the Merovingian king of Austrasia. The council was presided over by Honoratus, the metropolitan bishop of Bourges, and gathered 14 other bishops - those who did not attend the second council of Orléans two years earlier. They represented the cities of the North and the East of the Frankish realm (like Reims and Metz) and the cities recently conquered from the Burgundians in the South (such as Rodez and Javols).
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:
Travel and change of residence
Ecclesiastical transfer
Former ecclesiastical career - Unspecified clerical grade
Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
Conflict
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, ER1281, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1281
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