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Council of Nicea I

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CANON IX.
 
IF any presbyters have been advanced without examination, or if upon 
examination they have made confession of crime, and men acting in 
violation of the canon have laid hands upon them, notwithstanding 
their confession, such the canon does not admit; for the Catholic 
Church requires that [only] which is blameless.
 
NOTES.
 
ANCIENT EPITOME OF CANON IX.
 
Whoever are ordained without examination, shall be deposed if it be 
found out afterwards that they had been guilty.
 
HEFELE.
The crimes in question are those which were a bar to the priesthood--
such as blasphemy, bigamy, heresy, idolatry, magic, etc.--as the 
Arabic paraphrase of Joseph explains. It is clear that these faults are 
punishable in the bishop no less than in the priest, and that 
consequently our canon refers to the bishops as well as to the 
 presbuteroi   in the more restricted sense. These words 
of the Greek text, "In the case in which any one might be induced, in opposition to the canon, to ordain such persons," allude to 
the ninth canon of the Synod of Neocaesarea. It was necessary to pass 
such ordinances; for even in the fifth century, as the twenty-second 
letter to Pope Innocent the First testifies, some held that as baptism 
effaces all former sins, so it takes away all the impedimenta 
ordinationis which are the results of those sins.
 
BALSAMON.
Some say that as baptism makes the baptized person a new man, so 
ordination takes away the sins committed before ordination, which 
opinion does not seem to agree with the canons.
 
This canon occurs twice in the Corpus Juris Canonici. Decretum Pars 
I. Dist. xxiv. c. vij., and Dist. lxxxj., c. iv.
 
 



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