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4. [...] si quid usquam vel in ordinandis episcopis vel presbyteris aut cujuslibet loci faciendis clericis contra praecepta apostolica reperitur admissum, aut in eorum conversatione quidpiam reprobatur, communi omnium auctoritate resecetur in ea praecipue celebritate conventus, quae praesidente Christo Domino nostro et veneranda sit sanctis et formidanda perversis. [...]

(ed. Thiel 1867: 144-145)

4. [...] If it is discovered that something was done against the Apostolic precepts in ordaining bishops and clerics or making clerics in any place, or that something reprobable was found in their manner, let him be cut off by the authority of all [gathered] at the solemnity of this meeting, where Christ the Lord presides, and which is to be worth of praise for the saint, and frightening for the corrupted. [...]

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

It is interesting to see how bishops and presbyters are described as "ordained", and other clerics as "made".

Place of event:

Region

Rome
Gaul

About the source:

Author: Hilarius
Title: Epistulae, Letters
Origin: Rome (Rome)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Hilarius was the bishop of Rome between AD 461 and 468.

Edition:

Thiel A. ed., Epistulae Romanorum pontificum genuinae et quae ad eos scriptae sunt a S. Hilario usque ad Pelagium II, 1, Braunsberg 1868, 127-170.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Impediments or requisits for the office - Improper/Immoral behaviour

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Demotion

Administration of justice - Suspension

Equal prerogatives of presbyters and bishops

Impediments or requisits for the office - Improper ordination

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1855, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1855