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Canon 5 (3)

Vt, si quis clericus quolibet honore monitus contempto episcopo suo ad principe uel ad potentiores homines uel ubi aut ubi ambulare uel sibi patronum elegerit, non recipiatur, preter ut ueniam debeat promereri. Quod si fecerit, hii, qui ipsum post admonitionem pontificis sui retenere presumpserint, nouerint se utrumque priorum canonum sententia esse damnandos.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 276)

Canon 5 (3)

That if any cleric of whatever rank, having ignored the admonition of his bishop, seeks support (ambulare) of the ruler or powerful people here and there (uel ubi aut ubi) or adopts a patron for himself, he should not be received [in communion] until he will be worthy of absolution. If [a cleric] does [what has just been forbidden], those who dare to support him after the admonition of his bishop, should know that they are excommunicated along with him by the judgement of the previous canons.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region

Gaul

City

Paris

About the source:

Title: Fifth Council of Paris, Concilium Parisiense V anno 614
Origin: Paris (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The Fifth Council of Paris was called by King Chlothar II one year after he became the sole ruler of the Frankish lands. On 10 October 614, it gathered twelve metropolitan bishops, sixty-three bishops (including the bishop of Rochester), and the abbot of Canterbury. Although it was one of the biggest of the Merovingian councils, its acts were preserved in only two canonical collections, and was surprisingly little cited by the later medieval compilators. Five days after the council, King Chlothar II issued an edict in which he repeated the synodal decrees, albeit using slightly different wording.

Edition:

C. de Clercq ed., Concilia Galliae a. 511-a. 695, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148 A, Turnhout 1963.

Translation:

J. Gaudemet, B. Basdevant, Les canons des conciles mérovingiens VIe-VIIe siècles, Sources chrétiennes 353, Paris 1989.

Categories:

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Patronage/Investiture

Conflict

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Relation with - Monarch and royal/imperial family

Relation with - Secular authority

Relation with - Noble

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: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1576, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1576