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Canon 5

De eo qui per ambitionem de inferiori civitate ad maiorem transire vult.

Si quis in parte alicuius fuerit ambitior inventus, sive episcopus sive presbyter sive diaconus, de inferiori civitate non transeat ad maiorem. Quod si quis contra haec magni concilii constituta importunus exstiterit, omnimodo evacuetur huiusmodi factum, et suae iterum restauretur ecclesiae, cuius episcopus aut presbyter aut diaconus prius fuerat constitutus.

(ed. Barlowe 1950: 125)

Canon 5

On those who out of ambition want to transfer from smaller to bigger town.

If a bishop, presbyter or deacon is found somewhere to be very ambitious, he shall not transfer from the lesser to the major town. If someone does something improperly against the constitutions of this great council, this fact will be cancelled, and he will be restored to the church where he had previously been a bishop, presbyter or deacon.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canon 15 of the council of Nicaea (325).

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Braga

About the source:

Author: Martin of Braga
Title: Collectio orientalium canonum, seu Capitula Martini, Capitula Martini, Collection of the Eastern canons
Origin: Braga (Iberian Peninsula), Nicaea (East)

In the manuscript tradition the canons of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula) in AD 572 are followed by the Eastern canons collected and translated into Latin by Martin of Braga (Iberian Peninsula). He was using a Greek collection, impossible to identify with any of the collections known today, which gathered the canons of the several Eastern councils. Martin quotes also the canons of the First Council of Toledo AD 400. Martin dedicated his work to Bishop Nitigisius of Lugo (Iberian Peninsula). Those two bishops met on the Second Council of Braga, and possibly the collection was composed for this occasion (Barlowe 1950: 84-87).

Edition:

C. Barlowe ed., Martini episcopi Bracarensis opera omnia, New Haven 1950.

Categories:

Ecclesiastical transfer

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1053, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1053