According to Canon 85 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) presbyters should not be ordained until they are thirty years old.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 85
Vt presbyter ante XXX annorum aetatem, quamuis sit dignus, non ordinetur.
Concilio Nouacaesariensi, tit. 10.
(ed. Munier 1974: 294)
Canon 85
A presbyter, no matter how worthy, should not be ordained before thirty years of age.
The Council of Neocaesarea, title 10.
(trans. S. Adamiak)
Discussion:
The canon repeats Canon 11 of the Council of Neocaesarea in Pontus (AD 314/319), where the norm is justified by the fact that Jesus Christ was baptised when he was thirty.
Place of event:
Region
Latin North Africa
East
City
Carthage
Neocaesarea
About the source:
Author: Ferrandus of Carthage Title: Breviary of Ferrandus, Breviatio Canonum, Breuiatio Canonum
Breuiatio Canonum Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa), Neocaesarea (East) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Ferrandus was a deacon of Carthage; he died before 546. His "Breviary" is the first systematic collection of canons produced in Africa. It contains the titles (not the entire text) of 232 canons of different councils (not only from Africa), treating mainly the duties of various clerical offices (1-144), ecclesiastical delicts (145-198), and liturgical norms (199-232).
Edition:
C. Munier ed., Concilia Africae a. 345-a. 525, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 149, Turnhoult 1974, 284-311.
Bibliography:
J. Gaudemet, Les Sources du droit de l’Église en Occident du IIe au VIIe siècle, Paris 1985.
Categories:
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Impediments or requisits for the office - Age
Act of ordination
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its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER740, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=740
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