Canon 7 of the Council of Angers (Gaul, AD 453) justifies banishing clerics who left the clergy from entering their former churches.
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VII. De clericis qui relicto clero saeculari militiae se contulerint.
Clerici quoque qui relicto clero se ad saecularem militiam et ad laicos contulerint, non iniuste ab ecclesia quam reliquerunt amouentur.
(ed. Munier 1963: 138, 139)
Canon 7. Concerning clerics who after leaving the clergy enter secular service.
Whereas clerics who after leaving the clergy enter secular service and join the laity are justly banished from the churches they abandoned.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Discussion:
Militia could refer to the military service, but it could mean any other kind of service as well.
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
Public functions and offices after ordination - Military activity
Further ecclesiastical career - Lay status
Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER768, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=768
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