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ER 1426
Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria (AD 248-264), writes letters to Philemon, presbyter in Rome, and Dionysius, presbyter (and future bishop) in Rome, concerning the rebaptismal controversy between Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, and Stephen, bishop of Rome; AD 254/257. Account of Eusebius of Caesarea, "Ecclesiastical History", AD 300/324.
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ER 2197
Funerary inscription of Sberentes, son of the Presbyter Marturius from Krivnya, Moesia inferior, undated.
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ER 1972
Martyrdom of Pudentiana and Praxedis is written in Late Antiquity (possibly during the Laurentian Schism, 498-506) as a letter exchange between the presbyters from Rome, Pastor and Timotheus, AD 138-145.
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ER 492
Funerary inscription of Exsoderus, presbyter probably in Mértola (iberian Peninsula), date unknown.
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ER 2034
Presbyters Archelaus and Dulcitius are mentioned in the funerary inscription of Alexius and Capriola, probably as the administrators of the cemetery. Rome, before AD 369.
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ER 49
Canon 18 of the Council of Elvira orders the excommunication of bishops, presbyters, and deacons who commit adultery. Collection of canons associated with the council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 52
Canon 19 of the Council of Elvira forbids bishops, presbyters and deacons to leave their province to do business. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 62
Canon 20 of the Council of Elvira forbids clerics to practice usury. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 68
Canon 24 of the Council of Elvira forbids the ordination of those who were baptised abroad. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 69
Canon 27 of the Council of Elvira forbids clerics to live with women to whom they are not related. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 70
Canon 32 of the Council of Elvira allows presbyters to give a communion to the excommunicated in case of necessity. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
ID
ER 71
Canon 33 of the Council of Elvira orders all married clergy to refrain from sexual relations with their wives. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 74
Canon 48 of the Council of Elvira forbids the clergy to accept money for baptism. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 76
Canon 51 of the Council of Elvira forbids the ordination of converts from heresy. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 77
Canon 65 of the Council of Elvira orders clerics to expell their adulterous wives. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 78
Canon 75 of the Council of Elvira orders the excommunication of those who falsely accuse bishops, presbyters, and deacons. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
ID
ER 79
Canon 77 of the Council of Elvira allows the deacons to baptize without a bishop or presbyter. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 80
Canon 80 of the Council of Elvira forbids the ordination of freedmen whose masters are alive. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
ID
ER 81
Canon 50 of the Council of Elvira forbids clerics and laymen to eat with Jews. Collection of canons associated with the Council of Elvira (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 300/600.
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ER 2171
Funerary inscription of the presbyter Adeodatus from the titular church of Prisca. Rome, probably 4th/5th c.
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ER 2186
Funerary inscription, commissioned by the Presbyter Timotheus for his wife. Rome, probably early 4th c.
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ER 2187
Funerary inscription of Presbyter Timotheus for his sister. Probably early 4th c.
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ER 2192
Funerary inscription of Mocimus, possibly a presbyter from Antioch (probably in Syria) deposed in Salona (Dalmatia), 4th or 5th century.
ID
ER 1175
Funerary inscription of the presbytis Kale from Centuripae (Sicily), ca 4th/5th c.
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ER 2210
Funerary inscription of Theodula, daughter of the presbyter Patricius, Tomis (Scythia Minor), the 4th or 5th century.
ID
ER 2321
Funerary inscription of the Presbyter Bonifatius. Theveste (North Africa), 4th/7th c.
ID
ER 911
DRAFT: The clergy of Cirta (Constantina, North Africa), among them presbyters, are present when the property of the Church is catalogued by the authorities during the persecutions, 303 AD. Fragment of the acts of Munatius Felix, the permanent priest (''flamen perpetuus"), 303 AD, preserved in "Gesta apud Zenophilum", 320 AD.
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ER 2124
Funerary inscription of the Presbyter Amantius in Tipasa (North Africa), 4th/5th c.
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ER 2133
DRAFT Funerary poem of the Presbyter Augustus in Rome, probably 5th/6th c.
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ER 1243
Presbyter Saturninus is among the martyrs (probably from Diocletianic persecutions, AD 303/304), commemorated in Uppena (North Africa), 4th/7th c.
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ER 2155
The Emperor Constantine issues the law confirming privileges of the Catholic clerics exempting them from public services. The law issued on 15 January 408, included in the Theodosian Code published in 438.
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ER 2158
The Emperor Constantine confirms privileges of the Catholic clerics exempting them from public services. The law issued on 31 October of 313 or 319, included in the Theodosian Code published in 438.
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ER 2159
The Emperor Constantine issues the law exempting clerics from public services. The law issued on 21 October of 313 or 319, included in the Theodosian Code published in 438 and in the Breviary of Alaric published in 506 in Gaul.
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ER 770
According to Canon 103 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) presbyters from other regions should not offer the sacrifice in the presence of the presbyters of the place.
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ER 1058
Canon 12 in the collection of the canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids newly ordained bishops to reject their dioceses and organise seditions.
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ER 1063
Canon 17 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids presbyters and deacons to sell the liturgical vessels.
ID
ER 340
Presbyters from various western provinces subscribe the acts of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314): lists of the clerics in attendance according to various codices.
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ER 341
Canon 25 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids clerics to marry "depraved women," and lay people already married to them cannot be accepted into the clergy.
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ER 342
Canon 26 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids bishops to ordain clerics from other churches.
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ER 354
Canon 27 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids to admit to a church clerics who abandoned their local church.
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ER 355
Canon 29 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids priests and deacons to couple with their wives because of daily clerical duties.
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ER 1133
Canon 58 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids clerics to abstain from meat.
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ER 629
According to Canon 8 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating the norm of the Council of Ancara AD 314) the presbyters who were ordained bishops but not accepted by the people should remain presbyters in their previous Churches.
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ER 164
Canon 2 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids ministers to leave the places in which they were ordained.
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ER 165
Canon 13 (12) of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) orders ministers of the Church who lend money at interest to abstain from communion.
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ER 166
Canon 14 (13) of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) expels from the clerical order those who have given away the holy scriptures, Sunday utensils, or the names of their brothers. If those suspended have ordained others, those others' ordination will be valid.
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ER 168
DRAFT: Canon 18 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) warns the deacons of Rome against not respecting the presbyterial office and acting without presbyters` knowledge.
ID
ER 169
Canon 21 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) permits the presbyters to serve in a place other than that of their ordination. However, they cannot change their place of residence more than once.
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ER 740
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.
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ER 742
According to Canon 86 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) those who were baptised while ill cannot be ordained presbyters unless for their good life and a shortage of clergy.
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ER 746
According to Canon 87 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) an ordained presbyter, who confessed to any crime, or who comes from the fallen (lapsi) should not be allowed to perform presbyterial duties.
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ER 747
According to Canon 88 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) presbyters should not attend banquets on the occasion of a second marriage.
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ER 751
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.
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ER 754
According to Canon 93 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) those presbyters who abstain from meat should at least touch it.
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ER 759
According to Canon 97 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) a presbyter who had sacrificed to idols, but later soldiered for the faith, would not be deprived of his dignity, but would be allowed neither to celebrate mass nor to preach.
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ER 760
According to Canon 98 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) presbyters who marry or fornicate after ordination shall be punished.
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ER 1065
Canon 20 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) decrees a legitimate age for presbyterial ordination.
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ER 1591
Four Donatist bishops and Presbyter Mammarius are allowed to return to Africa by the decision of the Emperor Constantine, transmitted in the letter of the praetorian prefects to the vicarius of Africa, AD 315 (transmitted as the Appendix VIII to Optatus, "Against the Donatists").
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ER 1087
Canon 25 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, ca AD 572) forbids to ordain presbyters and deacons without examination of the candidates.
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ER 1093
Canon 27 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) orders to depose and punish with penance clerics who fornicated.
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ER 1094
Canon 28 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids to ordain those whose wives commited adultery.
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ER 1118
Canon 38 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids presbyters to participate in a wedding of those who remarry.
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ER 1131
Canon 56 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids foreign presbyters to celebrate Mass when the local bishop or presbyter is present.
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ER 1635
Bishop Fortis exhorts the presbyters of Cirta to reconcile with Deacon Nundinarius. AD 320.
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ER 2161
The Emperor Constantine issues a law according to which the clerics of curial origin who entered the clergy before the promulgation of the law forbidding decurions to enter the clergy, should be free from any public service. Those, however, who after the promulgation entered the clergy to evade public duties, are to be removed from the office and restored to municipal councils. The law issued on 18 July of 320, included in the Theodosian Code published in 438.
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ER 910
Presbyter Victor gives to the authorities the names of the lectors during the persecutions. Cirta (Constantina, North Africa), 303 AD. Account in "Gesta apud Zenophilum", 320 AD.
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ER 912
DRAFT: Bishop Fortis accuses Silvanus and other Donatist leaders of having betrayed during the persecutions, accepting money from Lucilla to foment the schism, and ordaining the fuller Victor presbyter for money. 320 AD.
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ER 2085
The Emperor Constantine issues a law allowing to manumit slaves in churches in the presence of bishops. Clerics can manumit their own slaves immediately and without witnesses. The law issued on 18 April 321 in Constantinople, included in the Theodosian Code, published in 438 (4.7.1), and repeated in the Justinian Code, promulgated in 529 and then again 534 (1.13.2).
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ER 1053
Canon 5 in the collection of the canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids bishops, presbyters, and deacons to transfer to another town.
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ER 1066
Canon 21 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids to ordain self-made eunuchs.
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ER 1068
Canon 22 in the collection of the canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids to ordain neophytes.
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ER 1070
Canon 24 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids to ordain presbyters and deacons without examination of the candidates.
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ER 328
According to canon 2 of the Breviary of Ferrandus (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) a candidate to the bishopric should pass through all the grades of the ecclesiastical career.
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ER 1112
Canon 32 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids clerics to live with women.
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ER 1113
Canon 33 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids to receive clerics ordained without consent of their bishop.
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ER 1116
Canon 36 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids to communicate with the bishops, presbyters and deacons accused of heresy.
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ER 1132
Canon 57 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids presbyters to fast on Sundays and in Eastertide.
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ER 1137
Canon 62 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids clerics to practice usury and speculate on the market.
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ER 2162
The Emperor Constantine issues a law forbidding to ordain clerics who have at their disposal means which can be used to support the public service. The number of clerics should not be inflated, only after the death of a cleric a new person of humble means should be ordained in his place. The wealthy clerics can be removed from the clergy to assume their public obligations. The law issued on 1 June of 326 or 329, included in the Theodosian Code published in 438.
ID
ER 2030
Presbyter Vincentius makes a funerary inscription for his brother, acolyte Annius Innocentius. Rome, second half of the 4th c.
ID
ER 722
Presbyters are representing the bishop of Rome at the Council of Nicaea (Asia Minor, AD 325). Account of Eusebius of Caesarea (Palestine), Life of Constantine, AD 337-339.
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ER 1438
Bishop Julius of Rome sends his presbyters, Elpidius and Philoxenus, to Constantinople to invite the followers of Eusebius of Nicomedia to Rome for a council to judge Athanasius. They return having achieved nothing, after being detained for some time in Constantinople. The council gathered in Rome, in the church of Presbyter Vitus, supports the decisions of Julius. AD 339/340. Account of Athanasius, "Apologia contra Arianos", Egypt, AD 357.
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ER 748
According to Canon 89 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) all are bound to communicate from the sacrifice offered by a married presbyter.
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ER 1057
Canon 7 in the collection of the canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids bishops to ordain clerics belonging to another bishop.
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ER 1061
Canon 15 in the collection of the canons of Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580), orders that presbyters and deacons have to know what belongs to the property of the diocesan Church.
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ER 1062
Canon 16 in the collection of Canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572) forbids bishops and their presbyters and deacons to alienate the ecclesiastical property.
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ER 1064
Canon 18 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) orders to convoke provincial councils twice a year in which all the bishops, presbyters, and deacons shall participate.
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ER 1114
Canon 34 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids clerics to abandon their churches.
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ER 1115
Canon 35 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids bishops, presbyter and deacons who have been excommunicated to appeal to the secular ruler.
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ER 1117
Canon 37 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids excommunicated bishops, presbyters, and deacons to perform their liturgical duties.
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ER 1150
Canon 84 in the collection of canons of the Eastern councils composed by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572/580) forbids bishops, presbyters, and deacons to communicate with the excommunicated.
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ER 736
According to Canon 79 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) the chorbishops should ordain neither presbyters, nor deacons, but only subdeacons.
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ER 755
According to Canon 94 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) presbyters are not allowed to issue letters of recommendation.
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ER 756
According to Canon 95 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, 523/546 AD, repeating earlier norms) presbyters should not sell the property of the Church without the knowledge of the bishop.
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ER 761
According to Canon 99 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, 523/546 AD, repeating earlier norms) presbyters and deacons who have changed their diocese, and do not want to return, shall be deposed.
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ER 763
According to Canon 100 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) presbyters and deacons dismissed by their bishops should not dare to perform any sacred services.
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ER 767
According to Canon 101 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) if a presbyter or a deacon separates himself from the Church and establishes an altar in his house, he shall be deposed.
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ER 2167
The Emperor Constantius and Constans issue a law granting exemptions from obligatory services to the clerics who have no possessions. The law issued on 26 February 342, included in the Theodosian Code published in 438.
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ER 769
According to Canon 102 of the Breviary of Ferrandus of Carthage (North Africa, AD 523/546, repeating earlier norms) the presbyters and deacons, who have been unjustly excommunicated, may appeal to the neighbouring bishops.
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ER 2164
The Emperor Constantius issues a law granting fiscal privileges for the clerics. The law issued on 27 August 343, included in the Theodosian Code published in 438.