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Canon 21

A very long canon concerning the virgins and widows who marry after being consecrated to God. Both the man who marries this woman and the woman herself are excommunicated.

Et quicumque episcoporum aut presbyterorum uel diaconorum aut subdiaconorum eis communicare praesumpserit, usque ad synodum ab omnibus episcopis excommunis habeatur.

There follows presentation of particular cases and decrees of other synods.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 187, summarised by J. Szafranowski)

Canon 21

A very long canon concerning the virgins and widows who marry after being consecrated to God. Both the man who marries this woman and the woman herself are excommunicated.

And any bishop or presbyter or deacon who dares to be in communion with them [i.e. the illicit couple] should be considered excommunicated by all bishops until the synod [gathers].

There follows presentation of particular cases and decrees of other synods.

(trans. and summarised 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:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema

Equal prerogatives of presbyters and bishops

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1471, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1471