Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 69
Canon 27 of the Council of Elvira forbids clerics to live with women to whom they are not related. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
Canon 27
 
De clericis, ut extraneas feminas in domo non habeant.
 
Episcopus uel quilibet alius clericus aut sororem aut filiam uirginem dicatam Deo tantum secum habeat; extraneam nequaquam habere placuit.
 
(ed. Martínez Díez, Rodríguez 1984: 250-251)
Canon 27
 
On the clerics that they shall not have in the house women not related to them
 
A bishop or other cleric may have with him a sister or a daughter who is a virgin devoted to God. But he shall not have any woman unrelated to him.
 
(trans. M. Szada)
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Elvira

About the source:

Title: Council of Elvira, Concilium Eliberritanum
Origin: Elvira (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The exact date of the council and the nature of the Elvira canons continues to be debated. Vilella and Barred 2006, Villela 2014 argue that it is a late, heterogenous compilation created in many phases between the late 4th century and the second half of the 6th. The unitary view is defended by Sotomayor and Berdugo Villena, in Sotomayor, Fernandez Ubina eds. 2008: 89-114. The council is usually dated to the first quarter of the 4th century, see Sotomayor in Sotomayor, Fernandez Ubina eds. 2008: 137-168). For a more complete account of the recent research on the Council of Elvira see Sánchez 2008.
Edition:
Editions:
J. Vives, Concilios visigóticos e hispano-romanos. Barcelona, Madrid 1963.
G. Martínez Díez, F. Rodríguez, eds., La colección canónica Hispana, v. 4 Concilios Galos. Concilios Hispanos: primera parte, Madrid 1984.
Bibliography:
M.J.L. Sánchez, "L’état actuel de la recherche sur le concile d’Elvire", Revue des sciences religieuses 82 (2008), 517-546.
M. Sotomayor and T. Berdugo Villena, "Valoración de las actas" in: M. Sotomayor, J. Fernández Ubiña, El Concilio de Elvira y su tiempo, Granada 2005, 89-114.
M. Sotomayor, "Sobre la fecha del concilio" in: M. Sotomayor, J. Fernández Ubiña, El Concilio de Elvira y su tiempo, Granada 2005, 137-168.
J. Vilella, P.-E. Barreda, Istituto Patristico Augustinianum, "¿Cánones del Concilio de Elvira o Cánones Pseudoiliberritanos?", Augustinianum 46 (2006), 285-373.
J. Vilella, "The Pseudo-Iliberritan Canon Texts", Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 18 (2014), 210-259.

Categories:

Family life - Unspecified permanent relationship
    Described by a title - Clericus
      Relation with - Brother/Sister
        Relation with - Children
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER69, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=69