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Discussion:

The canon confirms:

1. The practice of promoting lower clergy to higher grades.

2. The practice of promoting even clerics from other churches.

3. The fact that the latter was considered illicit: once ordained, a cleric was bound not to change his diocesan allegiance.

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:

Ecclesiastical transfer

Former ecclesiastical career - Lower clergy

Described by a title - Clericus

Impediments or requisits for the office

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER274, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=274