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Canon 14

Si quis cuiuscumque munuscula qualibet sanctis scriptura conlata nefaria calliditate fraudauerit, inuaserit, retentauerit adque suppresserit et non statim a sacerdote conmonetus Deo conlata reddiderit, ab ecclesiae catholicae commonione pellatur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 108-109)

Canon 14

If someone stole, took possession of, retained or kept in any way the donations [offered] to the saints by showing some documents with despicable trickery, and would not give back to God what he had stolen immediately after being reproached by a priest, he should be banned from communion of the Catholic Church.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

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 the 8th of November of 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 fourteen 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:

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς

Ecclesiastical administration - Administering Church property

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1292, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1292