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Canon 12 of the First Council of Narbonne (Gaul, AD 589) decrees that presbyters should remain at the altar for the entire duration of the Mass. Presbyters should rebuke those deacons and members of lower clergy that remove their albs before the Mass is over.
Canon 12
 
Неc maxime pro Dei timore et modum discipline canonice elegimus custodienda uel tenenda, ut dum missa celebratur, nullus presbiter aut diaconus, absque aliqua infirmitate, dum missa perficitur, egredi de altario audeat; nec diaconus, aut subdiaconus certe, uel lector, antequam missa consumetur, alba se presumat exuere. Quod si quisque non impleuerit constituta, presbiteri increpentur ut redunt, diaconos et execrandos et stipendio pribandos, reliquos districtione certissima condemnandos.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 256)
Canon 12
 
We have chosen this to be by all means observed and preserved out of the fear of God and in accord with the canonical discipline, that while the Mass is being celebrated no presbyter or deacon should dare to walk away from the altar until the Mass is finished, except when it is due to some illness. No deacon, and certainly no subdeacon or lector, should dare to remove his alb before the Mass is completed. If someone disobeys what was constituted, they should be rebuked by the presbyters to come back. The deacons should be both excommunicated (exacrandos) and deprived of their stipends; the rest should be reproached with utmost severity.
 
(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Narbonne

About the source:

Title: First Council of Narbonne, Concilium Narbonense I anno 589
Origin: Narbonne (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The First Council of Narbonne was called by Migetius, metropolitan bishop of Narbonne, and gathered six other bishops from his province. This synod was held on the 1st of November as the Third Council of Toledo (convened in May of the same year) has suggested that the provincial councils of the Visigothic kingdom should gather on that date. Migetius was indeed present at Toledo along with King Reccared who had recently converted to Catholicism.
Edition:
C. de Clercq ed., Concilia Galliae a. 511-a. 695, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148 A, Turnhout 1963.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
    Ritual activity - Eucharist
      Public law - Ecclesiastical
        Relation with - Deacon
          Relation with - Lower cleric
            Ecclesiastical administration
              Livelihood/income
                Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1561, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1561
                Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
                last edited: 2019-09-11 18:34:53
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