Canon 130 of the Council of Carthage (North Africa, 419 AD), preserved in the 5th-century Carthage Register, orders the acquittal of clerics accused of many crimes if one of them has been unproven.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 130
Item placuit: quotiescumque clericis ab accusatoribus multa crimina obiciuntur, et unum ex ipsis, de quo prius egerit, probare non ualuerit, ad cetera iam non admittatur.
(ed. Munier 1974: 231)
Canon 130
It has pleased us that on any occasion when clerics are accused of many crimes, and it has been impossible to prove the first of them , the others shall not be brought forward.
(trans. S. Adamiak)
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 (692).
Edition:
C. Munier ed., Concilia Africae a. 345-a. 525,Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 149, Turnhoult 1974, 173-247.
Categories:
Described by a title - Clericus
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER317, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=317
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