Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 234
Canon 8 of the Council of Lerida (Iberian Peninsula, AD 546) forbids clerics to drag their servant or disciple out of the church to which he has fled.
Canon 8
 
Si clericus seruum uel discipulum de ecclesia traxerit, ut paenitentiam agat.
 
Nullus clericorum seruum aut discipulum suum ad ecclesiam confugientem extrahere audeat uel flagellare praesumat. Quod si fecerit, donec digne paenitet, a loco cui honorem non dedit segregetur.
 
(eds. Martínez Díez, Rodríguez 1984: 303-304)
Canon 8
 
If a cleric drags his servant or disciple out of the church, he should do penance.
 
Let no cleric dare to take his servant or disciple out of the church to which he has fled, or whip him. If he does so, he will be excluded from this place which he dishonoured, until he does penance.
 
(trans. by M. Szada)
 
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Lerida

About the source:

Title: Council of Lerida 546, Concilium Ilerdense a. 546
Origin: Lerida (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The date of the council is given in two different ways - the first is a date in the Spanish era which began in 38 BC, the second is a date according to the years of the reign of Theoderic. In the case of the council of Lerida the dates do not agree - year 584 in the Spanish era is AD 546 and the 15th year of the reign of Theoderic is AD 525. The other provincial council held in Valencia was also dated to the 15th year of Theoderic, but the date in the Spanish era there is 587 (so AD 549). The scholars assumed that the name of the ruler was corrupt in the manuscript tradition and they proposed that we should read Theudis. King Theudis began to reign in AD 531, so the 15th year of his reign would be AD 546 (with references to the early modern commentators Hefele 1895: 132; Orlandis, Ramos-Lissón 1986: 124-131).
Edition:
Editions:
J. Vives ed., Concilios visigóticos e hispano-romanos, Barcelona-Madrid 1963.
G. Martínez Díez, F. Rodríguez eds., La colección canónica Hispana, Monumenta Hispaniae sacra. Serie canónica 4, Madrid 1984.
Bibliography:
C.J. Hefele, A History of the Councils of the Church from the Original Documents, v. 4, trans. by W.R. Clark, Edinburgh 1895.
M. Guallar Pérez, Los concilios tarraconenses celebrados en Lérida, (siglos VI-XV), Lérida 1975.
J. Orlandis, D. Ramos-Lissón, Historia de los concilios de la España romana y visigoda, Pamplona 1986.
M. Rodriguez Gil, "Consideraciones sobre una antigua polemica: las Iglesias propias”, Cuadernos de Historia del Derecho 6 (1999), 247-272.

Categories:

Economic status and activity - Slave ownership
    Relation with - Slave/Servant
      Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
        Administration of justice - Suspension
          Education
            Pastoral activity - Teaching
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