The Presbyters Project

Canon 24

De his qui sine discussione aut presbyteri aut diacones ordinati sunt.

Si quis presbyter aut diaconus sine aliqua examinatione ordinati sunt, aut certe cum discuterentur criminosa peccata sua celaverunt et post ordinationem ab aliis sunt detecti, abiciantur ex clero. Similiter et de universo ordine cleri servetur. Nam hoc sibi quod irreprehensibile est sancta et catholica defendit ecclesia.

(ed. Barlowe 1950: 130-131)

Canon 24

On those who were ordained presbyters or deacons without examination.

If someone is ordained a presbyter or deacon without any examination, or if he had concealed while examined criminal sins that were revealed by others after his ordination, he shall be expelled from the clergy. It applies similarly to the whole order of clergy. Because the holy Catholic Church claim for herself what is irreprehensible.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canons 9 and 10 of the Council of Nicaea in AD 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)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

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:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Impediments or requisits for the office - Improper/Immoral behaviour

Public law - Secular

Further ecclesiastical career - Lay status

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Demotion

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1070, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1070