Canon 18 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids presbyters to travel without letters of recommendation from their bishops.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 18
Presbytero, diacono uel subdiacono sine episcopi sui litteris ambulanti iuxta statuta priora cummunionem nullus inpendat.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 121)
Canon 18
In accord with the previous canons, no one can grant communion to a presbyter, deacon, or subdeacon who is travelling without the letters [of recommendation] from his bishop.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Orléans
About the source:
Title: The 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:
Travel and change of residence
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1317, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1317
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