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Canons of the First and Second Council of Constantinople

Πρωτοδευτέρα Σύνοδος

Seventeen canons under St Photios, chiefly on monastic order and on the ceasing of commemoration, including Canon 15, the charter of walling off.

Showing 3 of 17 canons. The remainder are being entered from the public domain sources; each canon here is labelled by the status of its text.

Topic

  1. Canon 13Against separation from one's bishop

    Editorial interpretation

    Presbyters or deacons who, alleging crimes against their bishop, withdraw from him and cease his commemoration before a synodical verdict, are to be deposed.

  2. Canon 14Against separation from one's metropolitan

    Editorial interpretation

    The same holds of a bishop who withdraws from his metropolitan before a synodical judgment.

  3. Canon 15The exception for heresy

    Editorial interpretation

    But those who withdraw from a hierarch who publicly preaches a heresy condemned by the Synods or Fathers, before any synodical verdict, are not condemned but worthy of honour, having not torn the Church by schism but sought to deliver her from it.

Source & text status

Summaries by this library; the operative Greek of Canon 15 is given in the research centre.

Full canonical texts, Greek and public domain English, in St Nikodemos' Pēdalion and in Rhalles and Potles, Σύνταγμα; the public domain English of the councils in Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, vol. 14.

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