Canon 6 of the Fourth Council of Orléans (Gaul, AD 541) decrees that bishops should send synodal decrees to the parish clergy, so that they could not claim ignorance of the canon law.
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Canon 6
Vt parrociani clerici a pontificibus suis necissaria sibi statuta canonum legenda percipiant, ne se ipsi uel populi, quae pro salute eorum decreta sunt, excusint postmodum ignorasse.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 133)
Canon 6
That parish clerics should receive from their pontiffs the decrees of canons that they are required to read, lest they themselves or the people afterwards make the excuse that they were ignorant of what has been decreed for their salvation.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Orléans
About the source:
Title: The Fourth Council of Orléans, Concilium Aurelianense IV anno 541 Origin: Orléans (Gaul) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
This council, convened on 14 May 541 in Orléans, was quite numerous: it gathered five metropolitans (of Bourges, Bordeaux, Eauze, Rouen, and Tours), thirty-seven other bishops, and, representing their bishops, eleven presbyters and one abbot. It is impossible to establish which king was or kings were mainly responsible for this synod. This is the first council of the Frankish Church which was attended by the bishops from the metropolitan province of Arles. Ceasarius of Arles himself was unable to come (he was 71 at the time), but thirteen bishops of his province were present.
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:
Education - Insufficient education
Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter
Described by a title - Clericus
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Education - Knowledge of canons
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1345, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1345
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