Canon 6 of the Second Council of Tours (Gaul, AD 567) forbids clerics to give letters of recommendation.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 6
Vt nullus clericorum uel laicorum praeter episcopum epistolia facere presumant.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 178)
Canon 6
That no cleric or layman with exception of a bishop should dare to give letters [of recommendation].
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Tours
About the source:
Title: The Second Council of Tours, Concilium Turonense II anno 567 Origin: Tours (Gaul) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
This council, the second one held in the city of Tours, gathered under the auspices of Charibert I on 18 November 567, in the last year of his reign. The list of subscribers for that synod is quite short as it holds only eight signatures. Suprisingly, it lacks even the bishop of Tours himself, Eufronius, or any bishop from his metropolitan province. Most probably, the original list was substantially longer.
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:
Travel and change of residence
Described by a title - Clericus
Usurping episcopal power
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical administration
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1462, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1462
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