Reconciling penitents was restricted for bishops by Canon 7 of the Second Council of Seville in 619 but the fact that the synodal fathers felt it necessary to forbid presbyters to perform the rite might suggest that in some places they were actually "usurping" it. The Liber ordinum is not usually clarifying which rites are for the bishops only and which can be performed either by a bishop or a presbyter. Liber ordinum sometimes singles presbyters out as presiding in rites but also frequently uses the term sacerdos not discriminate between bishops and presbyters.