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Canon 3

Si clerici reuellionis ausu sacramentis se aut scriptura coniuratione constrinxerint atque insidias episcopo suo aut contra se calleda allegatione confecerint, cum etiam saecularibus sit legibus omnino prohibitum, si admoniti emendare contempserint, gradu proprio omnino priuentur, sic tamen ut, si quas etiam causas se contra episcopo suo aut inter se habuerunt, proxima synodo requirantur.

(ed. de Clercq 1963: 292)

Canon 3

If clerics bind themselves in conspiracy, either by recklessly rebellious oaths or by written [agreement], and prepare a scheme or a sly accusation against the bishop, since this is also completely prohibited to the laymen, if [those clerics] having been admonished refuse to make amends, they should be completely deprived of their particular rank in such a way, however, that if they want to file a lawsuit against their bishop, or against each other, they should be invited to the nearest [ecclesiastical] council.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region

Gaul

City

Clichy

About the source:

Title: Council of Clichy, Concilium Clippiacense anno 626/627
Origin: Clichy (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The Council of Clichy was convoked by King Chlotar II on the 27th of September. It is quite problematic to establish the exact year of the council. The acts mention that the bishops gathered in the 43rd year of Chlotar`s rule, but since Chlotar became king either in the end of September or the beginning of October, this could mean either 626 or 627. The synod in Clichy was much smaller in scale than the Fifth Council of Paris called by Chlotar some twelve years earlier. Forty bishops attended the council, and two more sent their representatives, which were one abbot and one deacon.

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:

Described by a title - Clericus

Public law - Ecclesiastical

Conflict

Relation with - Another presbyter

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior

Relation with - Deacon

Relation with - Lower cleric

Administration of justice - Ecclesiastical

Administration of justice - Demotion

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1602, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1602