The Presbyters Project

Canon 8

De his qui in infirmitatibus poscunt poenitentiam et a sacerdote accipiunt, si postea convaluerint, vitam poenitentium peragant, excepto manus inpositione, segregati a comunione quandiu probabilem sacerdos eorum adprobaverit vitam.

(ed. Vives 1963: 53)

Canon 8

If those who ask for penance when they are sick, and receive it from a priest, later recover, they should live like penitents, but they should not be submitted to the imposition of hands. They should be separated from the communion until the priest has approved their life.

(trans. M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Barcelona

About the source:

Title: First Council of Barcelona, Concilium Barcinonense a. 540
Origin: Barcelona (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The provincial council was held at Barcelona ca 540 (for the date see Orlandis, Ramos-Lissón 1986: 120-121 and Schäferdiek 1967: 85-86) by the metropolitan bishop Sergius of Tarragona. Another six bishops were present: Nibridius of Barcelona, Carontius of Emporiae (modern Empuries), Andreas of Lerida, Stafilius of Gerona, John of Saragossa, and Asellus of Tortosa (see preface to the canons of the council, Vives 1963: 53). In the Hispana collection the document De fisco Barcinonesi is attached to the canons. It is unrelated to them and was written in the times of King Reccared (586-601).

Edition:

J. Vives ed., Concilios visigóticos e hispano-romanos, Barcelona-Madrid 1963.

G. Martínez Díez, F. Rodríguez eds., La colección canónica Hispana, Monumenta Hispaniae sacra. Serie canónica 5, Madrid 1966.

Bibliography:

J. Orlandis, D. Ramos-Lissón, Historia de los concilios de la España romana y visigoda, Pamplona 1986.

K. Schäferdiek, Die Kirche in den Reichen der Westgoten und Suewen bis zur Errichtung der westgotischen katholischen Staatskirche, Berlin 1967.

Categories:

Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς

Ritual activity - Eucharist

Ritual activity - Imposition of hands

Ritual activity - Reconciliation/Administering penance

Equal prerogatives of presbyters and bishops

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER208, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=208