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Canons of the First Ecumenical Council (Nicaea I)

Κανόνες τῆς Α΄ Οἰκουμενικῆς Συνόδου

Twenty canons on the order of the Church: jurisdiction, the reception of the lapsed and of schismatics, and the standing of the clergy.

Showing 3 of 20 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 8Reception of the Cathari (Novatianists)

    Editorial interpretation

    Schismatics returning to the Church, having been received by the laying on of hands, are to remain in the clergy, provided they profess to hold the doctrines of the Catholic Church.

  2. Canon 19Reception of the Paulianists

    Editorial interpretation

    Followers of Paul of Samosata returning to the Church are to be rebaptized, since their baptism did not confer the Trinity.

  3. Canon 20Standing for prayer

    Editorial interpretation

    One is to pray standing, not kneeling, on the Lord's Day and through the days of Pentecost.

Source & text status

Public domain text: NPNF 2nd ser., vol. 14 (to be transcribed); summaries by this library.

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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