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Acts of the First Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 561) orders bishops gathered at the council to excommunicate clerics and monks of their dioceses who resist observing the canons of the council or adhere to the Priscillianists.
8. [...]  
 
Si quis autem ex nobis in parochiis suis post agnita huius concilii constituta aut clericum aut monachum sanae huic doctrinae resistentem invenerit aut in aliquo adhuc Priscillianae sectae errore latitare persenserit, et non continuo illum excommunicatum et anathematizatum de ecclesia foris eiecerit, ita ut cum huiuscemodi homine nec cibum aliquis fidelium communicare praesumat, noverit se is qui talem recipit et fraternae esse excommunicationi obnoxium et divinae proculdubio sententiae reum. [...]
 
(ed. Barlowe 1950: 115)
8. [...]
 
If someone of us having known the constitutions of this council finds in his diocese a cleric or a monk resisting this beneficial teaching or perceive that this cleric or monk hides an error of the Priscillianist sect, and he does not excommunicate and condemn him, and then expel him from the Church, so that no one of the faithful shall eat together with him, let him know that anyone who receives such a man will be subject to excommunication and sentenced to divine punishment.  [...]
 
(trans. by M. Szada)

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

Categories:

Food/Clothes/Housing - Food and drink
    Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Priscillianist
      Change of denomination
        Described by a title - Clericus
          Public law - Ecclesiastical
            Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
              Relation with - Heretic/Schismatic
                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, ER322, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=322
                    Record by: Marta Szada
                    last edited: 2017-09-22 10:59:37
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