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According to Canon 91 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) presbyters should not consecrate virgins and the chrism without the consent of the bishop.
Canon 91
 
Vt presbyter, incosulto episcopo, uirgines non consecret, chrisma uero nunquam conficiat.
Consilio Carthaginensi, tit. 43.
 
(ed. Munier 1974: 295)
Canon 91
 
A presbyter should not consecrate virgins and the chrism without the consent of the bishop.
The Council of Carthage, title 43.
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

The canon is meant to repeat the previous norms of the Councils of Carthage [135], [229], however, it does not include the reconciliation of the penitents among the activities prohibited to the presbyters, and it allows the presbyter to consecrate virgins and the chrism with the consent of the bishop.

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
City
  • Carthage

About the source:

Author: Ferrandus of Carthage
Title: Breviary of Ferrandus, Breviatio Canonum, Breuiatio Canonum Breuiatio Canonum
Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa)
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:

Ritual activity - Anointment with chrism
    Ritual activity - Blessing of oil
      Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
        Ritual activity - Blessing virgins/widows
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER750, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=750
          Record by: Stanisław Adamiak
          last edited: 2017-06-21 11:48:34
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