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Canon 5

De uagis et inoboedientibus clericis.

Hoc etiam placuit, ut uagus atque instabilis clericus, siue etiam in diaconii ministerio uel presbyterii officio constitutus, si episcopo a quo ordinatus est praeceptis non oboedierit ut in delegata sibi ecclesia officium dependat assiduum, quousque in uitio permanserit, et communione et honore privetur.

(eds. Martínez Díez, Rodríguez 1984: 319-320)

Canon 5

On the wandering and disobiedient clerics

It is also ordered that if a vagabond cleric, let he be in a ministry of deacon or in the office of presbyter, is not obedient to the precepts of the bishop that ordained him to remain steadily at the church entrusted to him, he shall be deprived of his honour and of the communion for as long as he persists in his fault.

(trans. M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Valencia

About the source:

Title: Council of Valencia 546, Concilium Valletanum a. 546
Origin: Valencia (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 Valencia the dates do not agree - year 587 in the Spanish era is AD 549 and 15th year of the reign of Theoderic is AD 525. The other provincial council held in Lerida was also dated to the 15th year of Theoderic, but the date in the Spanish era there is 584 (so AD 546). The scholars assumed that the name of a 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 in 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.

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:

Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter

Functions within the Church - Wandering presbyter/Without office

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Described by a title - Clericus

Conflict

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema

Administration of justice - Demotion

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER285, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=285