Canon 15 of the First Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 561) forbids clerics and monks from living with women not related to them.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Proposita contra Priscillianam haeresem capitula et relecta continent haec:
[...]
XV.
Si quis clericorum vel monachorum praeter matrem aut germanam vel thiam vel quae proxima sibi consanguinitate iunguntur alias aliquas quasi adoptivas feminas secum retinent et cum ipsis cohabitant, sicut Priscilliani secta docuit, anathema sit.
(ed. Barlowe 1950: 109)
The chapters against the heresy of Priscillian were proposed and reread:
[...]
Canon 15
If a cleric or a monk keeps with him any woman other than his mother, sister or aunt or other woman of his kin, as if she was adopted to his family and lives with her according to the teachings of the sect of Priscillian, let him be anathema.
(trans. by M. Szada)
Discussion:
The bishops condemn the practice of "adopting" women to the family which is considered to be characteristic of the Priscillianists who required that women should be related to men at gatherings (Ferreiro 1998: 388).
The prescription of Canon 15 is similar to the other Spanish canons regulating the cohabitation of clerics with women (e.g. Canon 27 of the council of Elvira, [69]; Canon of Gerona [154]; Canon of Lerida [251], Canon of Valencia [286]), but is the only one to mention monks.
Place of event:
Region
Iberian Peninsula
City
Braga
About the source:
Title: First Council of Braga, Concilium Bracarense a. 561, Concilium Bracarense primum Origin: Braga (Iberian Peninsula) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The First Council of Braga was summoned by bishop Lucretius of Braga under the auspices of the king of Galicia Ariamir for the 1st of May 561. It was the first council of the Galician Church after the conversion of the Suevi to Catholicism. Apart from Lucretius and Martin of Dumio, mentioned in the third place, we can identify the sees of only two other bishops, Andreas of Iria and Lucetius of Coimbra, because they were present at the Second Council of Braga in 572.
It has been suggested that Martin of Braga wrote the minutes of the both councils. There are no conclusive arguments, but some linguistic evidence in favour of Martin`s authorship was presented by the editor, C. Barlowe (1950: 83).
Edition:
Edition:
Concilium Bracarense primum, in C. Barlowe ed., Martini episcopi Bracarensis opera omnia, New Haven 1950, 105-115
Bibliography:
A. Ferreiro, "Priscillian adn Nicolaitism", Vigiliae Christianae 52 (1998), 382-392.
Categories:
Family life - Unspecified permanent relationship
Family life - Permanent relationship continued after ordination
Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Priscillianist
Described by a title - Clericus
Relation with - Woman
Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
M. Szada, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER302, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=302
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