Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 214
Canon 19a of the Council of Hippo (North Africa, AD 393), preserved in the "Breviarium Hipponense" (AD 397), forbids ordaining clerics from other dioceses without the consent of their bishops.
can. 19a
 
Vt clericum alienum nisi concedente eius episcopo nemo audeat uel retinere uel promouere in ecclesia sibi credita.
 
(ed. Munier 1974: 39)
Canon 19a
 
Let nobody dare to retain or promote in his church a cleric from another diocese without the consent of the cleric's bishop.   
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

The canon repeats a well-known norm preventing transfers of clerics between the dioceses without the consent of their former bishops. It notes a specific possibility of "promotion" of a cleric, meaning that e.g. a deacon of one diocese might have been ordained as a presbyter in another (without the proper permission). This is confirmed by Canon 54 of the Carthage Register, which deals with the case of a certain Iulianus, ordained as a lector by one bishop, and as a deacon by another (against whom the former complained).

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
City
  • Carthage
  • Hippo Regius

About the source:

Title: Breuiarium Hipponense
Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The bishops of Byzacena arrived too early for the African plenary council at Carthage in AD 397. Since they had to leave the city before the actual beginning of the proceedings Aurelius of Carthage charged them with editing the decisions of the Council of Hippo of AD 393. The document drafted in this way and accepted on 13 August 397 was called the "Breviarium Hipponense", and it was included later in the Canons in causa Apiarii from AD 419, Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta, Breviarium of Ferrandus and Statuta Ecclesiae Antiqua.
Edition:
C. Munier ed., Concilia Africae a. 345-a. 525, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 149, Turnhoult 1974, 23-53.  

Categories:

Ecclesiastical transfer
    Former ecclesiastical career - Unspecified clerical grade
      Described by a title - Clericus
        Relation with - Another presbyter
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER214, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=214