Canon 3 of the First Council of Mâcon (Gaul, AD 581/583) orders that a woman can enter the bishop`s chamber only when accompanied by two presbyters.
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Canon 3
Vt nulla mulier in cubiculo episcopi absque duos presbyteros ingredi permittatur.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 224)
Canon 3
That no woman is permitted to enter the bishop's chamber unless she [is accompanied] by two presbyters.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Mâcon
About the source:
Title: First Council of Mâcon, Concilium Matisconense I anno 581/583 Origin: Mâcon (Gaul) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The First Council of Mâcon was called by King Guntram and gathered bishops from his entire realm: the metropolitans of Lyon, Vienne, Sens, Bourges, and Besançon, and sixteen other bishops. The exact dating of this synod is unsure as the acts give us both the date of 1st November of the twenty-second year of King Guntram`s rule (i.e. 583) and that of the fifteen indiction (i.e. 581).
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
Specific number of presbyters from the same church
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Another presbyter
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Relation with - Woman
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1531, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1531
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