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Canon 22

De contumacibus clericis. Si quis superbia elatus officium suum indignatione quacumque inplere noluerit, iuxta statuta priora laica cummunione contentus ab ordene depositus tamdio habeatur, quamdio digna, sicut scriptum est, paenetentia et supplicatione satisfecerit; praesidente pontifice tamen illis regolariter et caritatem integram et, quaecumque illis stipendiorum iuxta consuitudinem redebentur, pro qualitate temporis ministrante. De quebus si quaerilla procidat, officium agens recorrat ad sinodum.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 122-123)

Canon 22

Concerning arrogant clerics. If someone, inflated with pride, refuses to fulfil his duty by whatever indignation, in accord with the previous decrees he will be contented with lay communion and will be deprived of his rank until he will compensate [for his wrongdoing] with worthy penance and pleading. Nevertheless, despite the circumstances, the pontiff in charge should supply them, regularly and with full love, with what is owed to them in stipends according to the custom. If a disagreement arises in such cases, the one performing his duty [i.e. the cleric] should appeal to the synod.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region

Gaul

City

Orléans

About the source:

Title: The Third Council of Orléans, Concilium Aurelianense 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 - Clericus

Ecclesiastical administration - Participation in councils and ecclesiastical courts

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Conflict

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Suspension

Livelihood/income

Administration of justice - Penance

Private 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, ER1321, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1321