Canon 105 of the Council of Carthage (North Africa, AD 407) preserved in the 5th-century Carthage Register, threatens with demotion excommunicated clerics who seek communion overseas.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 105
De his qui, cum in Africa non communicant, uoluerint trans mare subripere.
Quicumque autem, non communicans in Africa, in transmarinis ad communicandum obrepserit, iacturam clericatus excipiat.
(ed. Munier 1974: 218)
Canon 105
About those who do not communicate in Africa and want to go by stealth overseas.
Whoever does not communicate in Africa and tries to sneak into communion overseas, will be expelled from the clericate.
(trans. S. Adamiak)
Discussion:
The canon shows clearly how expulsion from holy orders was a more severe form of punishment for clerics than excommunication.
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:
Ecclesiastical transfer
Further ecclesiastical career - Lay status
Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical
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:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER314, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=314
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