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Canon 10

Vt presbyteri, diaconi uel quolibet ordine clereci episcopo suo oboedienti deuotione subiaceant et non alibi dies feriatos nisi in episcopi sui obsequio liceat tenere aut caelebrare. Quod si quis per quacumque contumaciam aut cuiuscumque patrocinio hoc facere fortasse distulerit, ab officio regradetur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 225)

Canon 10

That presbyters, deacons, and clerics of whatever rank should be subjected to their bishop in zealous obedience. It is forbidden for them to hold or celebrate festive days elsewhere [than in the bishop's basilica] unless they were permitted to do so by their bishop. If someone by any chance refuses to [comply to this decree] due to whatever stubbornness or whoever's patronage, he should be demoted from his office.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Discussion:

See similar canons that shed light on how "elsewhere" should be understood in this context in records [936] and [1293].

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:

Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter

Functions within the Church - Monastic presbyter

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Ritual activity - Celebrating feasts

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Demotion

Functions within the Church - Presbyter in a lay foundation

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1535, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1535