According to Canon 92 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) presbyters should not command or do anything in any parish without the consent of the bishop.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 92
Vt presbyteri ciuitatis sine iussu episcopi nihil iubeant nec in unaquaque parrochia aliquid agant.
Concilio Anquiritano, tit. 13.
(ed. Munier 1974: 295)
Canon 92
The presbyters of the place should not command or do anything in any parish without the consent of the bishop.
The Council of Ancara, title 13.
(trans. S. Adamiak)
Discussion:
Ferrandus writes that the canon refers to Canon 13 of Ancara (314 AD), which, however, deals with the chorbishops, forbidding them to ordain presbyters and deacons without the written permission of the bishop of the diocese.
Place of event:
Region
Latin North Africa
East
City
Carthage
Ancara
About the source:
Author: Ferrandus of Carthage Title: Breviary of Ferrandus, Breviatio Canonum, Breuiatio Canonum
Breuiatio Canonum Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa), Ancara (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:
Functions within the Church - Rural presbyter
Functions within the Church - Urban presbyter
Usurping episcopal power
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Ecclesiastical administration
Functions within the Church - Chorbishop
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER751, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=751
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