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Canon 19 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids priests to grant communion to excommunicated raptors of consecrated women.
Canon 19
 
The canon concerns the raptors of virgins, penitent women, or widows; that is, women consecrated in some way. Both the oppressor and the woman (if she has accepted to live with her captor) are excommunicated for their entire life.
 
Quod siquis sacerdos sciens huiusmodi persunis cummunicauerit, anno integro pacem aeclesiae non habebit.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 121)
Canon 19
 
The canon concerns the raptors of virgins, penitent women, or widows; that is, women consecrated in some way. Both the oppressor and the woman (if she has accepted to live with her captor) are excommunicated for their entire life.
 
If a priest knowingly grants communion to such a person, for a whole year he will not have the peace of the Church.
 
(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:

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
    Ritual activity - Eucharist
      Ritual activity - Reconciliation/Administering penance
        Public law - Ecclesiastical
          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, ER1318, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1318
              Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
              last edited: 2019-03-06 23:46:35
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