Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
Search Presbyter Records
Search Evidence Records
Print:
ID
ER 1548
Canon 10 of the Second Council of Mâcon (Gaul, AD 585) decrees that no presbyter can be dragged from the church, and that every punishment imposed on him must be consulted with his bishop.
Canon 10
 
Quod de episcopis censuemus, obteneat et in clero, ut neque presbyter neque diaconus neque subdiaconus de ecclesiis trahantur aut iniuriam aliqua inscio episcopum eorum patiantur; sed, quidquid quis aduersus eos habuerit, in notitiam episcopi proprii perducat et ipsi causa iustitia preeunte discutiens animo clericos accusantis satisfatiat.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 244)
Canon 10
 
What we have decreed concerning the bishops should also apply to the clergy, so that neither a presbyter nor a deacon nor a subdeacon should be dragged from the churches or should suffer any injury unbeknown to his bishop. But, if someone had something against them, he should bring it to the notice of the particular bishop and truthfully describe him the case in accord with his heart and [in this way] seek amends from the accused clerics.
 
(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Mâcon

About the source:

Title: Second Council of Mâcon, Concilium Matisconense II anno 585
Origin: Mâcon (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Second Council of Mâcon was called by King Guntram and gathered bishops from his realm, as well as those of Chlotar II of whom Guntram was a guardian. Therefore, in the proceedings presided over by Priscus, metropolitan bishop of Lyon, there took part the metropolitans of Vienne, Rouen, Bordeaux, Sens, Bourges, and Arles through his representative. Also participating were forty eight other bishops, including three without a see (among them Primatus, see [1528]), as well as eleven clerics of unknown names and ranks who represented their absent bishops. From the ambiguous account of Gregory of Tours (Histories, 8.7), we might presume that this synod was held on the 23rd of October.
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
      Conflict
        Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
          Relation with - Secular authority
            Relation with - Noble
              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, ER1548, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1548
                  Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
                  last edited: 2019-09-03 11:07:59
                  Contact
                  Privacy policy
                  FAQ
                  About the project
                  Team