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Canon 11

Nullus ergo clericorum, non episcopus, non presbiter, non diaconus, non subdiaconus, quasi sanctimonialem aut uiduam uel ancillam propriam pro conseruatione rerum in domum suam stabilire praesumat, quae et ipsa extranea est, dum non est mater aut soror aut filia, quae etiam pronior propinquauit ad culpam, dum dinoscitur subiecta dominatu. Si quis episcoporum aut presbiterorum seu diaconorum aut subdiaconorum de hac re statuta patrum uel nostra temerare praesumpserit, excommunicetur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 179–180)

Canon 11

No one from the clerics, no bishop nor presbyter nor deacon nor subdeacon, should dare to establish [a woman] who is not related to him as a nun or a widow or his slave-girl in his house for housekeeping as long as she is not his mother, or sister, or daughter, who are also less prone to err while subdued to [his] power [as a closest male relative]. If one of the bishops or presbyters or deacons or subdeacons dares to violate in this manner the decrees of the fathers or those passed by us, he should be excommunicated.

(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:

Food/Clothes/Housing - Type of housing

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Described by a title - Clericus

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Economic status and activity - Slave ownership

Relation with - Father/Mother

Relation with - Brother/Sister

Relation with - Children

Relation with - Monk/Nun

Relation with - Woman

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema

Equal prerogatives of presbyters and bishops

Equal prerogatives of presbyters and deacons

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1465, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1465