Canon 35 of the Council of Hippo (North Africa, AD 393) forbids clerics from living in other cities without the permission of the bishops or presbyters of the place. Account of "Breviarium Hipponense" (AD 397).
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Canon 35
Vt clerici in aliena ciuitate non immorentur, nisi causas eorum iustas episcopus loci uel presbyteri locorum peruiderint.
(ed. Munier 1974: 42)
Canon 35
Clerics should not stay for a long time in a foreign city, unless the bishop or the presbyters of that place verify the just reasons for it.
(trans. S. Adamiak)
Discussion:
What is interesting here is not so much the attempt to curb changes in clerics' residence as the fact that the authority of bishops is put on a par with that of presbyters.
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:
Travel and change of residence
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Described by a title - Clericus
Relation with - Lower cleric
Ecclesiastical administration
Equal prerogatives of presbyters and bishops
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
S. Adamiak, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER225, https://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=225
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