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LXXXIV. De excommunicatis.

Non liceat communicare excommunicatis neque in domos eorum introeunti orare cum eis. Neque liceat in alia ecclesia suscipi qui ab alia ecclesia segregatur. Si autem aliquis episcopus aut presbyter aut diaconus aut quilibet ecclesiasticus excommunicato communicaverit, quasi perturbans omnem disciplinam ecclesiasticam excommunicetur.

(ed. Barlowe 1950: 144)

LXXXIV. On the excommunicated.

It is not allowed to communicate with the excommunicated nor to enter their houses to pray with them. And it is not allowed to receive in a church one who has been expelled from another. If, however, a bishop, presbyter, or deacon or any other ecclesiastic communicates with an excommunicated, he shall be excommunicated too as a person disturbing all the ecclesiastical discipline.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Cf. canons 2 of the Council of Antioch (AD 341).

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), Antioch (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

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Relation with - Heretic/Schismatic

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1150, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1150