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Canon 5

Si que oblationis in quibuslibit rebus adque corporibus conlate fuerint basilicis in ciuitatibus constitutis, ad potestatem episcopi redigantur et in eius sit arbitrio, quid ad reparationem basilicae aut obseruantum ibi substantia depotetur. De facultatibus uero parrociarum uel basilicarum in pagis ciuitatum constitutis singulorum locorum consuetudo seruetur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 116)

Canon 5

If some offerings in whatever form (in quibuslibit rebus adque corporibus) were given to the basilicas which are located in the cities, it should be in the power of the bishop and left to his decision to determine what should be allotted to the restoration of the basilicas and to the sustenance of those who serve in them. Concerning the resources of the parishes or basilicas located in the countryside (pagis civitatum), the custom of the particular place should be observed.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region

Gaul

City

Orléans

About the source:

Title: Third Council of Orléans, Concilium Aurelianense III anno 538
Origin: Orléans (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

This council convened on 7 May 538 in Orléans gathered five metropolitans, fourteen other bishops, and seven presbyters representing their bishops. They all came from the kingdoms of Childebert I or Theuderic I. No bishop from the kingdom of Clothar I participated. Apart from the council of Agde (AD 506), this is the only one from this period that gathered a metropolitan bishop from every region represented in the synod by a bishop or a presbyter. The council was presided by metropolitan bishop of Lyon, all of whose suffragans were present. Similarly, all bishops from the metropolitan province of Rouen attended the synod.

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:

Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter

Functions within the Church - Rural presbyter

Functions within the Church - Urban presbyter

Ecclesiastical administration - Administering Church property

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Livelihood/income

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1307, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1307