Canon 35 of the Third Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 538) forbids clerics to bring anyone to secular courts, and laymen to bring clerics to secular courts.
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Canon 35
Clericus cuiuslebit gradus sine pontificis sui permisso nullum ad saecolare iudicium praesumat adtraere neue laico inconsulto sacerdote clericum in saecolare iudicio leceat exebere.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 126)
Canon 35
A cleric of whatever rank should not dare to bring anyone to the secular court without the permission of his pontiff. Also, a layman is forbidden to bring a cleric to the secular court unless it was consulted upon with a priest.
(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
Attributes of clerical status
Ecclesiastical administration - Participation in councils and ecclesiastical courts
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Relation with - Secular authority
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1330, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1330
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