Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 273
A letter (tractatoria) of Pope Siricius, written in Rome in AD 386 and preserved in the acts of the Council Thelense (North Africa, AD 418, Canon 5) bars laymen who have married widows from ordination.
Canon 5
 
Vt is qui laicus uiduam duxerit non admittatur ad clerum.
 
(ed. Munier 1974: 61)
 
 
Canon 5
 
If a layman has married a widow, he will not be admitted to the clergy.  
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
  • Rome
City
  • Thelensis Civitas
  • Rome

About the source:

Title: Concilium Thelense, Concilium Theletense
Origin: Thelensis Civitas (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
A council of bishops of Byzacena gathered on 24 February 418 in an otherwise unknown place. The council is transmitted in various codices as "Thelense", "Theleptense", "Zelense" and others. The only preserved part of the acts of the council is the letter ("tractatoria") of Pope Siricius, written and accepted at the Council of Rome on 6 January 386 ("Data Roma in concilio episcoporum lxxx sub die viii idus ianuarias post consulatum Arcadi Augusti et Bautonis uu. cc. consulum"), and destined firstly to the bishops of southern Italy. The tractatoria of Siricius was read and accepted at the council of 418 in Byzacena.
The text of the tractatoria of Siricius is also edited as his Letter 5 (CPL 1637, PL 13, 1158-9).
Edition:
C. Munier ed., Concilia Africae a. 345-a. 525, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 149, Turnhoult 1974, 53-65.  

Categories:

Family life - Marriage
    Family life - Permanent relationship before ordination
      Impediments or requisits for the office - Marriage
        Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER273, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=273