The Presbyters Project

Canon 26

Abbatibus, presbyteris citirisque ministris de rebus ecclesiasticis uel sacro ministerio alienare uel oblegare absque permisso et subscriptione episcopi sui nil liceat. Quod qui praesumserit, regradetur cummunione concessa et, quod taemere praesumtum aut alienatum est, ordenatione episcopi reuocetur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 124)

Canon 26

It is forbidden for abbots, presbyters, and other ministers to alienate or mortgage the ecclesiastical property or cult objects without the permission and signature of their bishop. If someone dares to do that, he will be demoted [but] with the right to receive communion. The property that was recklessly put in danger or alienated should be once again in the disposition of the 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:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Ecclesiastical administration - Administering Church property

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Demotion

Further ecclesiastical career

Livelihood/income

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, ER1325, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1325