Canon 23 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) decrees that clerics dissatisfied with the way their bishops treat them should appeal to the synod.
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Canon 23
Si quis clericorum circa se aut districtionem aut tractationem episcopi sui potat iniustam, iuxta antiquas constitutiones recorrat ad sinodum.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 123)
Canon 23
If a cleric considers severe treatment of himself by his bishop unjust, he should, in accord with the ancient constitutions, 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 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 - Clericus
Ecclesiastical administration - Participation in councils and ecclesiastical courts
Conflict
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1322, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1322
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