Canon 4 of the Council of Losne (Gaul, AD 673/675) decrees that clerics should not live in one house with women to whom they are not related.
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Canon 4
Mulierem sane aliam nisi iuxta scripturarum patrum instituta nullus clericorum in propria domum abere praesumat.
(ed. de Clercq 1963: 315)
Canon 4
No cleric should dare to have in his house a woman who is other than those permitted by the writings of the fathers.
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Place of event:
Region
Gaul
City
Losne
About the source:
Title: Council of Losne, Concilium Latunense anno 673/675 Origin: Losne (Gaul) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The Council of Losne (present-day Saint-Jean-de-Losne) was convoked by King Childeric II, who himself attended the synod. The council must have been held in the last two years of Childeric II`s reign when he united the Frankish lands under one rule, that is, between 673 and 675. The acts of this council were preserved in only one manuscript (Albi 147 f. 182). No list of attendees survived. The huge number of participants mentioned in the acts (three hundred and eighteen!) is a likely reference to the number of Abraham`s trusted servants (see Gen 14:14), which was later also considered the number of bishops present at the Council of Nicaea in 325.
This was the last of the major Merovingian councils.
Edition:
C. de Clercq ed., Concilia Galliae a. 511-a. 695, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148 A, Turnhout 1963.
Translation:
J. Gaudemet, B. Basdevant, Les canons des conciles mérovingiens VIe-VIIe siècles, Sources chrétiennes 353, Paris 1989.
Categories:
Food/Clothes/Housing - Type of housing
Described by a title - Clericus
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Father/Mother
Relation with - Brother/Sister
Relation with - Other relative
Relation with - Woman
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1630, https://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1630
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