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Canon 15

Vt episcopi, presbiteri uel diaconi uenationes more seculario exercere non praesumant. Quod si fecerint, priorum canonum institutis corrigantur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 316)

Canon 15

That bishops, presbyters, or deacons should not dare to take part in hunts as laymen do. If one did, he should be corrected according to the decrees of the previous canons.

(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:

Entertainment - Hunting

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Attributes of clerical status

Public law - Ecclesiastical

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, ER1633, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1633