Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 765
Canon 3 of the Council of Angers (Gaul, AD 453) orders clerics to abstain from violence and the crime of cutting off limbs.
III. De uiolentiae et crimine (...erasum) uitandum.
 
Vt a uiolentia et crimine perputationis abstineantur.
 
(ed. Munier 1963: 137, 139)
Canon 3. Concerning violence and crime (...erased) should be avoided.
 
[We decree] that [clerics] should abstain from violence and the crime of cutting off limbs.
 
(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Angers

About the source:

Title: Council of Angers, Concilium Andegavense
Origin: Angers (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Council of Angers took place on the 4th of October 453. Seven bishops were present: Leo of Bourges, Eustochius of Tours, Victor of Le Mans, Chariation, Rumoridus and Viventius of unknown sees, and, finally, the newly elected bishop of Angers, Thalasius. As we learn from the letter often included in the manuscripts as part of the synodal collection (see [753]), the main purpose of this gathering was the institution of the canons against clerics applying to secular courts.
Edition:
Ch. Munier ed., Concilia Galliae a. 314-a. 506, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148, Turnhoult 1963.

Categories:

Described by a title - Clericus
    Impediments or requisits for the office - Improper/Immoral behaviour
      Conflict - Violence
        Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER765, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=765