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LVI. De presbyteris forasticis.

Forasticis presbyteris praesente episcopo vel presbytero civitatis offerre non liceat neque ministrare in populo, nisi forte illis absentibus.

(ed. Barlowe 1950: 137)

LVI. On the foreign presbyters.

Foreign presbyters are not allowed to offer a sacrifice with the people in the presence of a bishop or a presbyter of the city. [The can do it], only if these are absent.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canon 13 of the Council of Neocaesarea (AD 315).

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), Neocaesarea (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:

Travel and change of residence

Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter

Functions within the Church - Urban presbyter

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Ritual activity - Eucharist

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1131, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1131