Pope Innocent I repeats the prohibition of ordaining clerics from other Churches and accepting clerics excommunicated in other Churches. Letter 2 of Pope Innocent I, "Etsi tibi", to Bishop Victricius of Rouen, Rome, AD 404/405.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Letter 2
VII,10. Ut de aliena Ecclesia clericum ordinare nullus usurpet, nisi ejus episcopus precibus exoratus, concedere voluerit. Hoc etiam synodus statuit Nicaena, ut abjectum ab altero clericum altera ecclesia non recipiat.
(ed. Coustant 1845: 475)
Letter 2
VII,10. Let nobody usurp the right of ordaining a cleric from another Church, unless his bishop, persuaded by pleas, would deign to concede. This was established by the Council of Nicaea that a cleric expelled by one Church should not be received in another.
(trans. S. Adamiak)
Discussion:
Canon 5 of the Council of Nicaea (AD 325) refered in particular to people excommunicated by one bishop – that they should not be accepted by others.
Innocent I was the bishop of Rome from AD 401 to 417. Several of his letters, especially to the bishops of Gaul and Spain, are "decretals": authoritative letters containing papal rulings, usually in response to questions raised by the bishops.
Edition:
P. Coustant ed., S. Innocentii Papae Epistolae et Decreta, Patrologia Latina 20, Paris 1845, 463-608.
Bibliography:
D. Jasper, H. Fuhrmann, Papal Letters in the Early Middle Ages, Washington 2001.
Categories:
Ecclesiastical transfer
Former ecclesiastical career - Lower clergy
Described by a title - Clericus
Public law - Ecclesiastical
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Administration of justice - Excommunication/Anathema
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1541, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1541
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