Canon 7 of the Council of Losne (Gaul, AD 673/675) decrees that no cleric can travel without letters of recommendation from his bishop or abbot.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 7
Vt nullus clericum alterius absque literas episcopi aut abatis sui praesumat recipere, nec monachi sine sacris aut literas, ut diximus, per patrias uacare aut discurrere praesumant.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 315-316)
Canon 7
That no cleric should dare to receive another [cleric] if he has no letters [of recommendation] from his bishop or abbot; nor should monks, as we have said, dare to wander idly through countries without documents from their supervisor (sine sacris) or letters.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Losne
About the source:
Title: Council of Losne, Concilium Latunense anno 673/675 Origin: Losne (Gaul) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Council of Losne (present-day Saint-Jean-de-Losne) was convoked by King Childeric II, who himself attended the synod. The council must have been held in the last two years of Childeric II`s reign when he united the Frankish lands under one rule, that is, between 673 and 675. The acts of this council were preserved in only one manuscript (Albi 147 f. 182). No list of attendees survived. The huge number of participants mentioned in the acts (three hundred and eighteen!) is a likely reference to the number of Abraham`s trusted servants (see Gen 14:14), which was later also considered the number of bishops present at the Council of Nicaea in 325.
This was the last of the major Merovingian councils.
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
Described by a title - Abba
Monastic or common life - Cenobitic monk
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Another presbyter
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Relation with - Monk/Nun
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1631, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1631
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