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Canon 12 of the Council of Clichy (Gaul, AD 626/627) excommunicates clerics who take back what their parents offered to the Church.
Canon 12
 
Clerici uel saeculares qui oblationes parentum aut donatas aut testamento relictas retenere presumpserint aut id, quod ipsi donauerunt, ecclesiae aut monasteriis crediderunt auferendum, sicut synodus sancta constituit, uelut negatores pauperum, quousque reddant, ab ecclesiis excludantur.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 294)
Canon 12
 
Clerics or laymen who dare to keep offerings that their parents either donated or left in the testament or who intend to take back what they had donated to the churches or monasteries should be removed, as has been decreed by the holy synod, from the churches as the murderers of the poor, until they give back [what they have taken].
 
(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Clichy

About the source:

Title: Council of Clichy, Concilium Clippiacense anno 626/627
Origin: Clichy (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Council of Clichy was convoked by King Chlotar II on the 27th of September. It is quite problematic to establish the exact year of the council. The acts mention that the bishops gathered in the 43rd year of Chlotar`s rule, but since Chlotar became king either in the end of September or the beginning of October, this could mean either 626 or 627. The synod in Clichy was much smaller in scale than the Fifth Council of Paris called by Chlotar some twelve years earlier. Forty bishops attended the council, and two more sent their representatives, which were one abbot and one deacon.
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 - Clericus
    Economic status and activity - Gift
      Relation with - Father/Mother
        Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
          Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema
            Livelihood/income
              Private law - Ecclesiastical
                Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1605, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1605
                Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
                last edited: 2019-08-09 11:24:03
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