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Canon 14 of the Council of Clichy (Gaul, AD 626/627) decrees that a cleric needs letters of recommendation from his bishop to travel to another diocese.
Canon 14
 
Si quis clericus de ciuitate sua aut prouincia ad alias uoluerit prouincias aut alias pergere ciuitates, pontificis sui epistolis commendetur, quia, si sine epistolis profectus fuerit manifestis, nullo modo recipiatur.
 
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 294)
Canon 14
 
If a cleric wishes to travel from his city or province to other provinces or cities, he should be recommended by letters from his pontiff, because if he departs without letters and appears [somewhere], he should be by no means received.
 
(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:

Travel and change of residence
    Described by a title - Clericus
      Public law - Ecclesiastical
        Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
          Administration of justice - 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, ER1606, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1606
            Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
            last edited: 2020-02-26 14:28:45
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