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Canon 6

Ut clericum alienum nullus ordinet, nec sit clericus qui non spoponderit locum ubi sit delegatus.

Ut nullus alienum clericum secundum decreta canonum sine consensu episcopi sui audeat ordinare, sed nec illum sanctorum sacerdotum quispiam ordinet, qui localem se futurum primitus non spoponderit, ut per hoc nullus a regula vel disciplina ecclesiastica deviare permittatur impune.

(ed. Vives 1963: 64)

Canon 6

That an extraneous cleric shall not be ordained, and that no one who has not promised to stay in the place to which he is delegated become a cleric

Let no one dare to ordain a cleric [from the other diocese] (alienum clericum) without the consent of his bishop according to the decrees of the canons, and let no one be accepted to the holy priesthood (sanctorum sacerdotum) who has not first promised to remain in the diocese, so that no one will be permitted to deviate from the ecclesiastical rules and discipline.

(trans. by 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 - Wandering presbyter/Without office

Described by a title - Clericus

Act of ordination

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER286, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=286