Canon 16 of the Council of Chalon (Gaul, AD 647/653) decrees that simony is henceforth forbidden, and everyone ordained for a gift should be deprived of his office.
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Canon 16
Vt nullus episcopus neque presbyter uel abba seu diaconus per praemium ad sacrum ordinem amodo penitus non accedat. Quod qui fecerit, ab ipsa honore, qua praemiis comparare praesumpserit, omnino priuetur.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 306)
Canon 16
That henceforth no bishop, nor presbyter, nor abbot, nor deacon should be by any means added to the holy order for a gift. If someone does that, he should be deprived completely of the honour he has dared to obtain by the means of gifts.
(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, mayor of the palace 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 bishops, 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 deprive him in 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:
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Simony/Buying office
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
Administration of justice - Demotion
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1619, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1619
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