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The Council of Carthage (North Africa) AD 345/348 forbids clergy and laymen to take communion in other churches without letters from their bishops.
Canon 7
 
Vt clerici vel laici in alia ecclesia non communicent sine litteris episcopi svi.
 
Cassianus Vsulensis episcopus dixit: statuat grauitas uestra ut unusquisque clericus uel laicus non communicent in alia plebe sine litteris episcopi sui.
Gratus episcopus dixit: nisi hoc obseruatum fuerit, communio fiet passiua.
Nam si cum litteris receptus fuerit et concordia inter episcopus seruatur ut nemo subtilis alterius fugiens communionem ad alium latenter accedat.
Vniuersi dixerunt: omnibus prouides et clero et laicis consulens.
 
(ed. Munier 1974: 6-7)
Canon 7
 
Neither clerics nor laymen should take communion in other churches without the letters from their bishop.
 
Cassianus, bishop of Usula, said: let your dignity order that no cleric or layman take communion in other churches without the letters from his bishop.
Bishop Gratus said: if this was not observed, there would be great confusion; but if he is accepted with the letters, the consent between bishops is preserved and nobody is escaping his own community in a subtle way, let him be happily accepted into another one.
All said: You provide for all, looking after both clergy and laymen.
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

See also [65] about the prohibition of being ordained in another church without the permission of one's own bishop.

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
City
  • Carthage

About the source:

Title: Council of Carthage 345/348, Concilium Carthaginense sub Grato a. 345/348, Concilium Carthaginis Africae primum
Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The council of Catholic bishops gathered between 345 and 348, mainly in order to resist the Donatists.
Edition:
Ch. Munier ed., Concilia Africae a. 345-a. 525, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 149, Turnhoult 1974.

Categories:

Travel and change of residence
    Described by a title - Clericus
      Public law - Ecclesiastical
        Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER126, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=126
          Record by: Stanisław Adamiak
          last edited: 2017-08-23 12:27:30
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