Canon 3 of the Council of Bordeaux (Gaul, AD 662/675) decrees that clerics should not live in one home with non-related women.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 3
De subintroductis uero mulieribus episcopus aut aba aut quicumque ex ordine sacro contra antiqua patrum statuta, nisi quod continent canones, uel in deinceps habere praesumserit, ipsa canonica sententia iudicetur.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 312)
Canon 3
[If] the bishop or abbot or anyone from the holy order dares to live [in one home] with non-related (subintroductis) women against the ancient statutes of the fathers or the present decree (in deinceps), with the exception of those [women] who are mentioned in the canons, the same canonical sentence should be imposed on him.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Bordeaux
Modogarnomum
About the source:
Title: Council of Bordeaux, Concilium Modogarnomense seu Burdegalense anno 662/675 Origin: Bordeaux (Gaul)Modogarnomum (Gaul), Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Council of Bordeaux was convoked by King Childeric II, hence, it was held somewhere between 662, when he ascended to the throne of Austrasia, and 675, when he died (the last two years ruling over all of the Frankish lands). The king was represented by dux Lupus. The gathering took place in the castle of Modogarnomum (or Garnomum), probably near present-day Langoiran (some 25 km south-east of Bordeaux) or at Saint-Pierre-de-Granon, near Marmande (some 75 km south-east of Bordeaux), both located on the banks of Garonne river (see Griffe 1964). The synod was attended by three metropolitan bishops (from Bourges, who presided, Bordeaux, and Eauze), thirteen other bishops from these ecclesiastical provinces, and two abbots representing their absent bishops. Apart from Poitiers in the province of Bordeaux, and Dax and Bigorre in the province of Eauze, all the bishops from those two provinces were present. Bourges is represented by its metropolitan, who came with the bishop of Cahors and two representatives from the bishops of Albi and Limoges. From the preface to the acts of the council, we learn that the synod was called, among others, because clerics defied the orders of their bishops.
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.
Bibliography:
É. Griffe, Où localiser le concile aquitain tenu vers 674 "in castro Garnomo", in: Bulletin de litterature ecclesiastique 65 (1964), pp. 49-52.
Categories:
Sexual life - Sexual activity
Sexual life - Extramarital
Food/Clothes/Housing - Type of housing
Described by a title - Clericus
Described by a title - Abba
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Father/Mother
Relation with - Brother/Sister
Relation with - Other relative
Relation with - Woman
Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
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J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1624, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1624
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