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ER 331
Canon 6 of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572) forbids the building of private oratories in order to profit from the offerings of the faithful.
ID
ER 332
Canon 7 of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572) forbids demanding payment for baptism.
ID
ER 333
Canon 8 of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572) orders to excommunicate a person who falsely accuses a cleric of fornication.
ID
ER 334
Canon 9 of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572) orders to announce the date of Easter to the people gathered in the church.
ID
ER 335
Canon 10 of the Second Council of Braga (Iberian Peninsula, AD 572) forbids presbyters from celebrating Mass for the dead without fasting.
ID
ER 336
Paschasius, a monk in Dumium, dedicates his translation of the Liber geronticon to Martin, presbyter and abbot of the monastery in Dumium (Iberian Peninsula), ca 550-556. Preface to the Liber geronticon de octo principalibus vitiis.
ID
ER 337
Eugenius II, bishop of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula) writes to Braulio, bishop of Saragossa (Iberian Peninsula) asking him about the case of an improperly ordained presbyter (possibly Lucidius), and about presbyters consecrating chrism (ca AD 647).
ID
ER 338
Canon 3 of the First Council of Seville (Iberian Peninsula, AD 590) forbids clergy to have non-related women in their houses and allows secular judges to sell such women.
ID
ER 339
Canon 1 of the Second Council of Saragossa (Iberian Peninsula, AD 592) permits former Arian presbyters to be ordained in the Catholic Church.
ID
ER 340
Presbyters from various western provinces subscribe the acts of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314): lists of the clerics in attendance according to various codices.
ID
ER 341
Canon 25 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids clerics to marry "depraved women," and lay people already married to them cannot be accepted into the clergy.
ID
ER 342
Canon 26 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids bishops to ordain clerics from other churches.
ID
ER 343
The Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) orders to demote bishops and other clerics if they do not profess faith according to the symbol proclaimed at the council.
ID
ER 344
The Arian clergy and Gothic lay leaders profess the Nicene creed at the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589).
ID
ER 345
Canon 3 of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) forbids bishops from alienating the property of their Churches, but permits them to use it to help monks, churches in their diocese, pilgrims, clerics and the poor.
ID
ER 346
Canon 5 of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) orders bishops and other clerics converted from Arianism to separate from their wives and forbids Catholic clerics from living with non-related women.
ID
ER 347
Canon 8 of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) forbids the reclamation of slaves of the treasury who have became clerics.
ID
ER 348
Canon 11 of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) forbids receiving an absolution from presbyters without observing the rules of penance.
ID
ER 349
Canon 12 of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) orders bishops and presbyters to demand a male penitent shave his hair, and a change of clothes from a female one.
ID
ER 350
DRAFT: Procopius accounts the expulsion of Catholic priests from Carthage by Vandals
ID
ER 351
In the year 545 Pope Vigilius sends Presbyter Ampliatus to govern the Church of Rome during his absence. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome, probably in the early 7th c.).
ID
ER 352
Canon 13 of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) forbids clerics from suing their fellow clerics in secular courts.
ID
ER 353
Canon 20 of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) forbids bishops from oppressing their clerics with taxes.
ID
ER 354
Canon 27 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids to admit to a church clerics who abandoned their local church.
ID
ER 355
Canon 29 of the First Council of Arles (Gaul, AD 314) forbids priests and deacons to couple with their wives because of daily clerical duties.
ID
ER 356
The clergy of Rome ask Justinian for the recall of Pope Vigilius and clerics exiled with him. Rome, after AD 552. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome, probably in the early 7th c.).
ID
ER 357
The participants of the apocryphal Council of Cologne (Gaul), supposedly AD 346, mention a few presbyters living or sojourning in Gaul. Paragraphs 6, 11, and 13 of the Council of Cologne 346, written at an unknown date.
ID
ER 358
Presbyter Andrew of Ostia is one of three consecrators of Pope Pelagius. Rome, AD 556. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), after AD 561.
ID
ER 360
Canon 1 of the Council of Valence (Gaul, AD 374) forbids the ordination of men twice married or those whose wives were previously married. Those, however, who are of such condition and are already ordained will not be demoted.
ID
ER 361
Canon 4 of the Council of Valence (Gaul, AD 374) decrees to remove from the clerical order anyone who confesses a capital crime.
ID
ER 362
Canon 21 of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589) forbids secular judges and officials from demanding services (angaria) from servants of the Church or clerics.
ID
ER 363
The edict of King Reccared, preserved in the acts of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589), confirms that the canons of this council shall be obeyed by the clergy and laity, and decrees a punishment for transgressors.
ID
ER 364
Subscriptions of the archpresbyters Gaianus of Asturias and Hildimirus of Orense (both in the Iberian Peninsula) in the acts of the Third Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 589).
ID
ER 365
Presbyter Iosias of Rusicade arrives in Hippo. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, Letter 23*A, AD 419.
ID
ER 366
A letter from the bishops present at the Council of Valence (Gaul, AD 374) to the clergy of Fréjus describing the reasons for not ordaining clergy`s episcopal candidate.
ID
ER 367
Canon 1 of the Council of Nîmes (Gaul) AD 394/396 forbids people coming from the East who pretend to be presbyters or deacons to serve at the altar.
ID
ER 368
The council of Huesca (Iberian Peninsula, 598 AD) orders that a diocesan synod must be held once a year and that all the clerics must live in a chastity. Canons of the council in Huesca of 598 related in the acts and canons of the council of Egara (Iberian Peninsula, 614 AD).
ID
ER 369
Canon 3 of the Council of Nîmes (Gaul, AD 394/396) forbids bishops to admit to communion clerics, or laymen sentenced by their own bishops.
ID
ER 370
Canon 4 of the Council of Nîmes (Gaul, AD 394/396) forbids bishops to judge clerics from another diocese without the consent of their bishop.
ID
ER 371
Canon 6 of the Council of Nîmes (Gaul, AD 394/396) forbids clerics to make journeys without letters of recommendation signed by their bishops.
ID
ER 372
Braulio, bishop of Saragossa (Iberian Peninsula) responds to the letter of Eugenius II of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula) in which he asked about the case of an improperly ordained presbyter (possibly Lucidius), and about presbyters consecrating chrism (ca AD 647).
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ER 373
Braulio, bishop of Saragossa (Iberian Peninsula), Bishop Eutropius, probably of Tarazona (Iberian Peninsula) along with their presbyters, deacons, and people, and Count Celsus ask King Chindasuinth to accept his son Reccesuinth as a co-ruler (AD 648).
ID
ER 374
Canon 4 of the Council of Turin (Italy, AD 398) confirms the judgement imposed on the layman Palladius by Bishop Triferius for intending to commit a crime against the Presbyter Spanus.
ID
ER 375
Fragment of the letter of Taio, presbyter and abbot in Saragossa (Iberian Peninsula) to Braulio, bishop of Saragossa, concerning the relics of Christ`s blood (AD 649-651).
ID
ER 376
Braulio, bishop of Saragossa (Iberian Peninsula) answers to the letter of Taio, presbyter and abbot in Saragossa concerning the relics of Christ`s blood (AD 649-651).
ID
ER 377
Fructuosus, presbyter in Iberian Peninsula, writes to Braulio, bishop of Saragossa (AD 649-651) asking him for explanation of a problematic passage in the Old Testament and for copies of the Conferences of Cassian and lives of saints for his monastery (ca AD 651).
ID
ER 378
Ajax, Arian cleric probably from Gaul is sent as a missionary to the Suevi in Galicia (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 465-466. Account of Hydatius, writing in Chaves (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 468-469.
ID
ER 379
Canon 5 of the Council of Turin (Italy, AD 398) decrees, dealing with the case of the Presbyter Exuperantius, that only the bishop who excommunicated a presbyter can reinstate him.
ID
ER 380
Canon 7 of the Council of Turin (Italy, AD 398) decrees that no one should accept a foreign cleric, or dare to promote him to a higher position, nor receive someone excommunicated.
ID
ER 381
Canon 8 of the Council of Turin (Italy, AD 398) forbids the promoting to higher ecclesiastical positions of those who were ordained to the ministry against the law or begot sons after ordination.
ID
ER 382
Canon 4 of the Council of Riez (Gaul) AD 439 grants presbyters (or chorbishops) serving in the countryside the right to give blessings, consecrate virgins, and confirm neophytes.
ID
ER 383
Augustine, bishop of Hippo, meets the Presbyter Commodian. Augustine, Letter 9*. North Africa, AD 422-429.
ID
ER 384
Consentius, a layman from the Balearic Isles, repeats the account of Fronto describing the activities and the process of the presbyter Severus, accused of Priscillianism. Severus was a relative of Count Asterius, a military commander in Spain. A letter of Consentius to Augustine, bishop of Hippo, AD 420 (Letter 11* in Augustine`s correspondence).
ID
ER 385
Consentius, a layman from the Balearic Isles, relates that some people in Spain justify the leniency towards the Priscillianists by recalling the fact that Augustine and African bishops accepted ex-Donatists in their dignities. A letter of Consentius to Augustine, bishop of Hippo, AD 420 (Letter 11* in Augustine`s correspondence).
ID
ER 387
Braulio, bishop of Saragossa (AD 649-651) replies to the letter of the presbyter Fructuosus in Galicia. He praises his monastic vocation, answers to his scriptural questions, warns him of the Priscillian heresy and says that he does not have the copies of the requested books (ca AD 651).
ID
ER 388
Consentius, a layman from the Balearic Isles, mentions his argument with the presbyter Leontius. A letter of Consentius to Augustine, bishop of Hippo, AD 420 (Letter 12* in Augustine`s correspondence).
ID
ER 389
Canon 4 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) formulates the procedure according to which councils shall be held.
ID
ER 390
Canon 10 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders priests to say the Lord`s prayer every day.
ID
ER 391
Canon 11 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) forbids priests to sing Alleluia in Lent.
ID
ER 392
Canon 12 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders priests to sing Alleluia not before, but after the reading from the Gospel.
ID
ER 393
Canon 1 of the Council of Riez (Gaul, AD 439) acknowledges harms done to priests and ministers of the Church of Embrun during civil unrest somehow connected to the illegitimate ordination of the local bishop.
ID
ER 394
Canon 14 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders priests to sing the hymn of the Three Youths at every mass.
ID
ER 395
Canon 15 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders clerics to say Glory and honour be to the Father instead of Glory be to the Father at the end of psalms.
ID
ER 396
Canon 18 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) forbids giving holy communion immediately after the Lord`s Prayer and regulates the proper place and order of receiving the communion by the clergy and laity.
ID
ER 397
Canon 19 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) forbids making a lay person a bishop.
ID
ER 398
Canon 20 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) fixes the age required to be ordained deacon or presbyter.
ID
ER 399
A presbyter who has been chosen to be ordained bishop of Fussala declines at the last moment. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, Letter 20*, North Africa, AD 422/423.
ID
ER 400
A monk of the monastery of Hippo, of ill reputation, is ordained a presbyter by Antoninus of Fussala. Augustine excommunicates him, but he is restored to communion by Antoninus. Account of Augustine of Hippo, Letter 20*, North Africa, 422-423.
ID
ER 401
Clerics and friends of Bishop Antoninus oppress the people of Fussala and decline to appear before the episcopal tribunal. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, Letter 20*, North Africa, AD 422-423.
ID
ER 402
Orosius, presbyter from Galicia (Iberian Peninsula), travels from Africa to Minorca (Balearic Isles) with relics of St Stephen. Being unable to cross over to Spain because of war he leaves the relics in the church in Magona, and goes back to Africa, in AD 418. Account of Severus of Minorca, Letter on the Conversion of the Jews, AD 418.
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ER 403
Severus, bishop of Minorca arrives to the city of Magona (Balearic Isles) to dispute with the Jews, and he dispatches his clerics to announce his arrival. Account of Severus of Minorca, Letter on the Conversion of the Jews, ca AD 418.
ID
ER 404
Canon 3 of the Council of Riez (Gaul) AD 439 describes the rights and limitations of the office of a chorbishop.
ID
ER 405
The Liber Pontificalis, written in Rome in the 6th and 7th c., gives the numbers of bishops, presbyters and deacons, ordained by the popes since St Peter.
ID
ER 406
Pope Aneclitus (late 1st c.) is said to have been ordained a presbyter by Saint Peter. Account of the Liber Pontificalis, written in Rome, AD 530/546.
ID
ER 407
Pope Evaristus (late 1st c.) is said to have divided the churches of Rome among presbyters. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 408
Pope Alexander (early 2nd c.) is said to have ordered the priests to insert the Lord`s Passion into the prayers of the Mass. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 409
Canon 23 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders presbyters and deacons to live with their bishop or with a witness of their proper way of life.
ID
ER 410
Canon 24 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders young clerics to live together under the supervision of a senior cleric.
ID
ER 411
Pope Sixtus I (early 2nd c.) is said to forbid lay men from touching holy vessels and to order the priests to sing the "Sanctus" during the Mass. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 412
A presbyter of Fussala presents to the episcopal tribunal in Tegulata a letter from the presbyters and the people of Fussala, with the grievences against their Bishop Antoninus. Antoninus refuses to believe the letter and wants to check personally the attitude of the presbyters and the people, who eventually confirm what they wrote. Augustine of Hippo, Letter 20*, North Africa, AD 422-423.
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ER 413
Augustine, bishop of Hippo sends a letter to some clerics in Carthage, among them the Presbyters Deogratias and Theodore, through the Presbyter Mascelio whom he commends to their hospitality. Augustine, Letter 25*, North Africa, AD 419.
ID
ER 414
Pope Hyginus (early 2nd c.) is said to organise the clergy and allot the ranks. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), 530/546.
ID
ER 415
Pope Anicetus (mid-2nd century) is said to forbid clerics to wear long hair. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 416
Pope Soter (2nd half of the 2nd c.) is said to forbid monks to touch holy linen or put incense inside the church. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 418
Augustine, bishop of Hippo (North Africa), recounts how the presbyters expelled a certain unworthy ostiarius from his function. Augustine, Letter 26*, North Africa, 411/430 AD.
ID
ER 419
Augustine, presbyter at Hippo (North Africa) recalls his presbyterial ordination and asks his bishop for a short leave to study the Scriptures to be better prepared for the job. Augustine, Letter 21, North Africa, AD 391.
ID
ER 420
Pope Victor (late 2nd c.) is said to consult presbyters and bishops on the date of Easter. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 421
Pope Zephyrinus (early 3rd c.) is said to establish the liturgical rules in regard to the ordinations and the celebration of the Eucharist. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 422
Pope Pontianus and Presbyter Hippolytus are exiled to Sardinia by Alexander Severus in year 235 AD. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 423
Augustine, bishop of Hippo, and Alypius, bishop of Thagaste, congratulate bishop Aurelius of Carthage on his decision to allow presbyters to preach in churches in his presence. Augustine, Letter 41, North Africa, shortly after AD 395.
ID
ER 424
Canon 25 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders priests to read the Holy Scripture and the canons.
ID
ER 425
Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), criticises Secundus of Tigisi, one of the authors of the Donatist schism, for judging Catholic bishops in absentia. Augustine underlines that he should not have been doing this in regard to bishops as if they were deacons, presbyters, or other lower clergy. Augustine, Letter 43, AD 396-397.
ID
ER 426
Canon 26 of the Fourth Council of Toledo (Iberian Peninsula, AD 633) orders that presbyters ordained to rural churches shall get the liturgical handbook from their bishop.
ID
ER 427
Augustine, bishop of Hippo, Alypius, bishop of Thagaste, and Fortunatus, bishop of Constantina write to a layman of Constantina, Generosus. A Donatist presbyter was trying to convince Generosus to abandon the Catholic Church, and he referred to angelic apparitions allegedly proving the justice of the Donatist cause. Augustine, Letter 53, North Africa, ca AD 400.
ID
ER 428
Augustine, bishop of Hippo, sends a presbyter to Celer, a rich landowner near Hippo, to convey some information to him. Augustine, Letter 57, North Africa, AD 396-410.
ID
ER 429
Augustine, bishop of Hippo, recalls how while still a presbyter he wrote his first letter to Jerome. Augustine, Letter 71, North Africa, ca AD 403.
ID
ER 430
Presbyter Maximinus is said to have been martyred in Pope Anterus` time (about AD 235). Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
ID
ER 431
Presbyters Moyses and Maximus are imprisoned after the death of Fabian, bishop of Rome (AD 250 AD). Moyses dies in prison. Novatus comes from Africa and separates Novatian from the Church. Account of the Liber Pontificalis (written in Rome), AD 530/546.
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ER 432
Presbyter Boniface and the monk Spes accuse each other of sexual misconduct. Augustine, their bishop, cannot determine the truth, so he sends them to the shrine of St Felix in Nola. Augustine does not want to remove Boniface from the list of the clergy before their return. Augustine of Hippo, Letter 78, North Africa, AD 411/418. The same information is provided by Letter 77.
ID
ER 433
Canon VII of the Council of Riez (Gaul, AD 439) forbids accepting into the clergy those who previously rebelled against the churches and its priests.