Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 221
Canon 29 of the Council of Hippo (North Africa, AD 393), preserved in the "Breviarium Hipponense" (AD 397), forbids clerics from eating inside churches.
Canon 29
 
Vt nulli episcopi uel clerici in ecclesia conuiuentur, nisi forte transeuntes hospitiorum necessitate illic reficiant; populi etiam ab huiusmodi conuiuiis, quantum potest fieri, prohibeantur.
 
(ed. Munier 1974: 41)
Canon 29
 
Bishops and clerics should not eat in churches, unless they are forced by the necessity of travel to take refreshments there; as far as it is possible, people should be kept aside from such meals.
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

The canon was repeated in Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta as Canon 42.

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:

Food/Clothes/Housing - Food and drink
    Entertainment - Feasting
      Travel and change of residence
        Described by a title - Clericus
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER221, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=221