Canon 20 of the Council of Hippo (North Africa, AD 393), preserved in the "Breviarium Hipponense" (AD 397), forbids to ordain those who were not proven suitable either by the scrutiny of the bishops or the testimony of the people.
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Canon 20
Vt nullus ordinetur nisi probatus uel episcoporum examine uel populi testimonio.
(ed. Munier 1974: 39)
Canon 20
Nobody can be ordained unless [his rectitude] has been proven either by the scrutiny of the bishops or by the testimony of the people.
(trans. S. Adamiak)
Place of event:
Region
Latin North Africa
City
Carthage
Hippo Regius
About the source:
Title: Breuiarium Hipponense Origin: Carthage (Latin North Africa) Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The bishops of Byzacena arrived too early for the African plenary council at Carthage in AD 397. Since they had to leave the city before the actual beginning of the proceedings Aurelius of Carthage charged them with editing the decisions of the Council of Hippo of AD 393. The document drafted in this way and accepted on 13 August 397 was called the "Breviarium Hipponense", and it was included later in the Canons in causa Apiarii from AD 419, Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta, Breviarium of Ferrandus and Statuta Ecclesiae Antiqua.
Edition:
C. Munier ed., Concilia Africae a. 345-a. 525, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 149, Turnhoult 1974, 23-53.
Categories:
Act of ordination
Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Impediments or requisits for the office
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER215, https://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=215
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