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Canon 7 of the Ninth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 655) forbids the heirs of bishops to take possession of the inheritance without the knowledge of the metropolitan bishop. Similarly, the heirs of presbyters and deacons must inform the bishop and obtain his consent.
Canon 7
 
Ne extra constitutum ordinem morientis sacerdotis heredes rem eius adire praesumant.
 
Propinqui morientis episcopi nihil de rebus eius absque metropolitani cognitione usurpare praesumant. Quod si is qui recesserit, metropolitanus fuerit, heres eius aut successorem illius aut concilium sustinebit, ne passim hereditatis adeundae data licentia de rebus ecclesiae aut non reddatur ratio plena aut fraus non inueniatur illata. Quod si presbyter aut diaconus fuerint quos obisse constiterit, non sine cognitione sui episcopi rem eius heredibus adire licebit. Quisquis sane post haec transgressor inuentus exstiterit, pro his quae non exspectato hoc ordine adierit, inuasionis damno legis sententiae subiacebit.
 
(eds. Martínez Díez, Rodríguez 1992: 500)
Canon 7
 
That heirs of a deceased bishop shall not assume [as inheritance] his property
 
The relatives of a deceased bishop shall not usurp anything from his things without knowledge of the metropolitan bishop. If a deceased is a metropolitan bishop, his heir will wait for either his successor or a council, lest, having been allowed to take the inheritance, no full account of the ecclesiastical property be given and no fraud be committed. If it is a presbyter or a deacon who has died, his heirs can assume an inheritance only with the knowledge of his bishop. If anyone knowingly transgresses these decrees, he or she shall receive the punishment ordered by the law for larceny because he or she assumed property without the required procedure.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Toledo

About the source:

Title: Ninth Council of Toledo, Concilium Toletanum nonum a. 655, Concilium VIIII Toletanum, Concilium Toletanum VIIII, Concilium IX Toletanum, Conciliu Toletanum IX
Origin: Toledo (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Ninth Council of Toledo assembled in November 655 during the reign of King Reccesvinth (653-672). It was presided over by Eugenius II of Toledo. It was attended by fifteen other bishops, abbots, representatives of absent bishops, and lay palatine office-holders (comites), similarly to the previous council in AD 653, but then the representation of ecclesiastics and laymen were significantly more numerous (see discussion in [650]).
Edition:
G. Martínez Díez, F. Rodríguez eds., La colección canónica Hispana, Monumenta Hispaniae sacra. Serie canónica 5, Madrid 1992.
Bibliography:
R. Collins, Visigothic Spain, 409-711, Oxford 2004.
J. Orlandis, D. Ramos-Lissón, Die Synoden auf der Iberischen Halbinsel bis zum Einbruch des Islam (711), Paderborn 1981.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
    Economic status and activity - Inheritance
      Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
        Relation with - Other relative
          Private law - Ecclesiastical
            Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER721, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=721
            Record by: Marta Szada
            last edited: 2019-01-28 10:53:12
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