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Canon 7

Vt defuncto presbytero uel abbate nihil ab episcopo auferatur uel archidiacono uel a quemcumque de rebus parrochiae, exinodotie uel monasterii aliquid debeat minuere. Quod qui fecerit, iuxta statuta canonum debeat cohercere.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 304)

Canon 7

When a presbyter or abbot dies, nothing may be taken from the parish property, not even by a bishop, archdeacon or anyone else, nor it is permitted to diminish in any way a hospice or a monastery. If someone were to do that, he should be punished according to the canons.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region

Gaul

City

Chalon

About the source:

Title: Council of Chalon, Concilium Cabilonense anno 647/653
Origin: Chalon (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The Council of Chalon was convoked by Aega, guardian of King Clovis II, on the 24th of October. The termini post quem (647) and ante quem (653) of the council are derived from the episcopal signatures (in 647 Vulfoleudus became the metropolitan bishop of Bourges and in 654 new bishops were appointed in Lyon and Vienne). The synod was attended by six metropolitan bishops (from Lyon, Vienne, Rouen, Sens, Bourges, and Besançon), thirty three other pontiffs, and one archdeacon and five abbots representing their absent bishops. Attached to the council acts is also the letter sent by the synodal fathers to Theudorius, metropolitan bishop of Arles, in which they demote him of his episcopal rank.

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

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Relation with - Deacon

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, ER1614, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1614