Canon 34 of the Council of Hippo (North Africa, AD 393), preserved in the "Breviarium Hipponense" (AD 397), forbids clerics to consecrate virgins without the consent of the bishop and to bless the chrism.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Canon 34
Vt presbyter non consulto episcopo uirgines non consecret; crisma uero numquam conficiat.
(ed. Munier 1974: 42)
Canon 34
A presbyter should not consecrate virgins without the consent of the bishop; neither may he ever bless the chrism.
(trans. S. Adamiak)
Discussion:
One can notice here the difference between the consecration of virgins, which can be performed by presbyters with their bishop's consent, and the preparation of chrism, which is meant to remain as an exclusive episcopal prerogative.
Place of event:
Region
Latin North Africa
City
Carthage
Hippo Regius
About the source:
Title: Breuiarium Hipponense Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The bishops of Byzacena arrived too early for the African plenary council at Carthage in AD 397. Since they had to leave the city before the actual beginning of the proceedings Aurelius of Carthage charged them with editing the decisions of the Council of Hippo of AD 393. The document drafted in this way and accepted on 13 August 397 was called the "Breviarium Hipponense", and it was included later in the Canons in causa Apiarii from AD 419, Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta, Breviarium of Ferrandus and Statuta Ecclesiae Antiqua.
Edition:
C. Munier ed., Concilia Africae a. 345-a. 525, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 149, Turnhoult 1974, 23-53.
Categories:
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Ritual activity - Blessing of oil
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Ritual activity - Blessing virgins/widows
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER224, https://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=224
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