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ER 277
Canon 48 of the council of Carthage (North Africa, AD 397), preseved in the 5th-century Carthage Register, forbids rebaptisms, reordinations, and translations of bishops.
Canon 48
 
Illud autem suggerimus mandatum nobis, quod etiam in Capuensi plenaria synodo uidetur statutum, ut non liceat fieri rebaptizationes, reordinationes, uel translationes episcoporum.
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Canon 48
 
We also suggest it should be stated – which the plenary council of Capua seems to have already decreed – that there should be no rebaptism, reordinations or translations of bishops.
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Discussion:

The canon seems to refer to possible changes of denomination of Donatist clerics, although it refers to the otherwise unknown Council of Capua (Southern Italy), and the rest of its text concentrates on the case of the wrongdoings of Bishop Cresconius, who "invaded" another church.
 
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
  • Italy south of Rome and Sicily
City
  • Carthage
  • Capua

About the source:

Title: Carthage Register, Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta
Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The text of the canon was transmitted in the Carthage Register (Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta). This collection was compiled by an anonymous author in the 5th century and included by Dionysius Exiguus in his "Codex canonum Ecclesiae Universae" in the early 6th century. It is sometimes known as "Codex canonum Ecclesiae Africanae" (Clavis Patrum Latinorum erroneously attributes this name to the "Codices in causa Apiarii" alone).  In the text of the collection, the fiction is maintained, as if they were all read at the session of the Council of Carthage, 30 May 418. The canons from this collection were accepted later by the Council of Trullo (AD 692).
Edition:
C. Munier ed., Concilia Africae a. 345-a. 525, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 149, Turnhoult 1974, 173-247.  

Categories:

Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Donatist
    Change of denomination
      Ecclesiastical transfer
        Act of ordination
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER277, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=277
          Record by: Stanisław Adamiak
          last edited: 2018-02-02 16:16:59
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