Council,  Canon

  1   1     |         placed at the disposal of the bishops the public conveyances and
  2   1     |       assembling of a large number of bishops. It was easily accessible
  3   1     |              easily accessible to the bishops of nearly all the provinces,
  4   1     |      universally adopted. Most of the bishops present were Greeks; among
  5   1     |           emperor began by making the bishops understand that they had
  6   1     |             and enthusiastic. All the bishops save five declared themselves
  7   1     |             confirms the right of the bishops of Jerusalem to enjoy certain
  8   1     |               persecution. ~Canon 15: Bishops, priests, and deacons are
  9   1     |                Formal prohibition for bishops to ordain for their diocese
 10   1”,2  |           ordained them presbyters or bishops; since, I say, these things
 11   1”,4  |             to be ordained by all the bishops in the province whenever
 12   1”,4  |          involved, let at least three bishops meet together in any event,
 13   1”,4  |              election held by all the bishops, and the appointment of
 14   1”,5  |         belong to a lay order, by the bishops in each particular province,
 15   1”,5  |            discussion held by all the Bishops of the province assembled
 16   1”,5  |              by common consent of the bishops it may seem better to let
 17   1”,5  |            been excommunicated by the bishops of any particular province,
 18   1”,5  |         persons excommunicated by the bishops of one province must not
 19   1”,5  |        admitted to communion by other bishops. Yet let an investigation
 20   1”,5  |               and to assemble all the bishops together in a common meeting
 21   1”,5  |           also by all the rest of the bishops, until it appear reasonable
 22   1”,5  |            the common assembly of the bishops to render a more philanthropic (
 23   1”,6  |           have authority over all the bishops and metropolitans in Egypt
 24   1”,6  |               over all the occidental bishops and metropolitans. Likewise
 25   1”,6  |              given authority over the bishops and metropolitans of Syria,
 26   1”,6  |            fact that the multitude of bishops voted for the bishop, the
 27   1”,6  |              s c. IV). Yet if all the bishops in common elect a candidate
 28   1”,7  |              the name metropolis, the bishops thereof were the only ones
 29   1”,7  |             accorded seniority to the bishops of Alexandria and of Antioch,
 30   1”,7  |              its devolving to all the bishops successively acceding to
 31   1”,7  |               a council with fourteen bishops concerning Easter before
 32   1”,8  |              lest there should be two bishops in the same city.~(Ap. cc.
 33   1”,8  |          situation arise in which two bishops are officiating in one and
 34   1”,15 |              ordained, since not only bishops but also presbyters and
 35   1”,18 |             Eucharist even before the Bishops. Let all these things, therefore,
 36   2     |              of Nyssa; and many other bishops from the East made up a
 37   2”,2  |                                   2.~ Bishops must not leave their own
 38   2”,2  |        affairs of Egypt only, let the Bishops of the East govern the Eastern
 39   2”,2  |           kept inviolate, and let the Bishops of the Asian diocese (or
 40   2”,2  |            Thracian diocese only. Let Bishops not go beyond their own
 41   2”,2  |          there either were not enough bishops to make up a synod, or it
 42   2”,2  |       explicit, neighboring and abler bishops ought to go to them, in
 43   2”,3  |         XXVIII, assert that these 150 Bishops gave equal priorities to
 44   2”,3  |              and in the fact that the Bishops who convened in the Trullus (
 45   2”,6  |              charges against Orthodox Bishops managing the churches, in
 46   2”,6  |               the holy Council of the Bishops who have convened in Constantinople
 47   2”,6  |              charges against Orthodox Bishops in regard to ecclesiastical
 48   2”,6  |           opposition to our canonical Bishops. Further, as regarding those
 49   2”,6  |            accusations before all the Bishops of the province and before
 50   2”,6  |            happen that the provincial Bishops are unable to or incompetent
 51   2”,6  |             to a greater synod of the Bishops of this diocese summoned
 52   2”,6  |            the affrontment of all the Bishops of the diocese, let no such
 53   2”,6  |           inimically slander Orthodox bishops, without accomplishing any
 54   2”,6  |               neither all accusers of Bishops be admitted nor again that
 55   2”,6  |             other words, the catholic Bishops who have been ordained in
 56   2”,6  |           before the synod of all the bishops of that particular province.
 57   2”,6  |              the greater synod of the bishops of the Diocese,[56] and
 58   2”,6  |      regulations and affronts all the bishops of the Diocese, and should
 59   2”,6  |           greater synod or council of bishops, but, instead of doing so,
 60   2”,6  |               communion clergymen and bishops that appeal their case to “
 61   3     |          Projectus, both of whom were bishops, and Philipp the presbyter,
 62   3”,1  |       perpetrate anything against the Bishops of the province, being already
 63   3”,1  |            the episcopate by the very Bishops of the province and by surrounding
 64   3”,1  |             Edessa, and of the thirty bishops who stayed with them or
 65   3”,1  |              74] by saying: Since the bishops who failed to appear at
 66   3”,1  |             to do any ill turn to the bishops, or even to the laymen,
 67   3”,1  |           even by those same Orthodox bishops and surrounding metropolitans.~ ~ ~
 68   3”,2  |            other hand, any provincial Bishops have failed to attend the
 69   3”,2  |            one, says that in case any bishops from the province of Antiocheia
 70   3”,3  |               any way whatever to the Bishops who have apostatized or
 71   3”,3  |               and, moreover, even the bishops in other countries who held
 72   3”,3  |              whatever to the apostate bishops.~ ~ ~
 73   3”,5  |              Council, or by their own Bishops, for improper acts, and
 74   3”,5  |               Council or by their own bishops, and whom Nestorius and
 75   3”,6  |            prescribed that if they be Bishops or clergymen, they are to
 76   3”,6  |               from office if they are bishops or clergymen, or excommunicated
 77   3”,7  |             heresy whatever, they, if Bishops or Clergymen, shall be deprived
 78   3”,7  |       Clergymen, shall be deprived as Bishops of their Episcopate, and
 79   3”,7  |           detected or caught, whether Bishops or Clergymen or Laymen,
 80   3”,7  |              such persons, if they be bishops and clergymen, are to be
 81   3”,7  |               also, I say, if they be bishops and clergymen, are to stand
 82   3”,8  |              him the most God-beloved Bishops of the province of the Cypriotes
 83   3”,8  |      ordinations of the most reverent Bishops. The same rule shall hold
 84   3”,8  |       everywhere, so that none of the Bishops most beloved by God shall
 85   3”,8  |      administration, by ordaining the bishops in Cyprus extra-territorially
 86   3”,8  |          known as Amochostos, and the bishops accompanying, namely, Zeno
 87   3”,8  |              themselves to ordain the bishops in Cyprus, and to be left
 88   3”,8  |            the right to sit down with bishops, and the communion, or,
 89   3”,8  |              in ordinations the other bishops, though not to perform any
 90   3”,8  |               the Council says to the bishops of Pamphylia, that in case
 91   4     |            Paschasinus and Lucinsius, bishops, together with Boniface
 92   4”,2  | Interpretation.~According to Zonaras, Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons
 93   4”,4  |               to monks, so ought also bishops to have diligence and foresight
 94   4”,5  |                        5.~ As regards Bishops or Clergymen who go from
 95   4”,5  |              Holy Fathers to prohibit bishops as well as clergymen from
 96   4”,9  |               him be subjected by the bishops to canonical penalties.
 97   4”,9  |            six, and the deacon three, bishops from neighboring districts,
 98   4”,9  |               it at all, but only the bishops, in accordance with the
 99   4”,11 |               are to receive from the bishops little letters called “pacific”
100   4”,12 |            Inasmuch as some ambitious bishops by applying to the Emperors
101   4”,12 |             VIII of the 1st), and the bishops of that province were hence
102   4”,17 |          undisputed possession of the bishops now holding them, and especially
103   4”,17 |             and indetachable from the bishops to whom they belong, and
104   4”,18 |             or hatching plots against Bishops or Fellow Clergymen[103]
105   4”,18 |             as cheese”) against their bishops or fellow clergymen, let
106   4”,19 |      canonically prescribed Synods of Bishops are not held in the provinces,
107   4”,19 |             the Holy Fathers, for the Bishops to meet twice a year in
108   4”,19 |             may come up. As for those Bishops, on the other hand, who
109   4”,19 |              account decrees that the bishops shall meet twice a year
110   4”,19 |            for correction. As for any bishops, on the other hand, who,
111   4”,20 |             communion with his fellow bishops and fellow clergymen, until
112   4”,21 |          Clergymen or laymen accusing Bishops or Clergymen are not to
113   4”,21 |        clergymen or laymen who accuse bishops or clergymen in regard to
114   4”,25 |           postpone the ordinations of Bishops, the holy Council has decreed
115   4”,25 |        postpone the ordination of the bishops subject to them; but, on
116   4”,26 |               have been informed, the Bishops are administering the ecclesiastical
117   4”,26 |           told that in some provinces bishops are administering the affairs
118   4”,28 |            and fifty most God-beloved Bishops who convened during the
119   4”,28 |            and fifty most God-beloved Bishops have accorded the like priorities
120   4”,28 |           aforesaid, and likewise the Bishops of the aforesaid dioceses
121   4”,28 |           dioceses, together with the Bishops of the province, shall ordain
122   4”,28 |            province, shall ordain the Bishops of the province, just as
123   4”,28 |            and fifty most God-beloved bishops of the second Council have
124   4”,28 |       Metropolitans (but not also the Bishops, that is to say, that are
125   4”,28 |        Metropolitan together with the bishops of the province, just as
126   4”,28 |              him, but indeed also the bishops located in barbarian regions
127   4”,29 |              removal from practice as Bishops, then neither ought they
128   4”,29 |         Antarandus, and, deposing the bishops whom he had ordained, degraded
129   4”,30 |             Whereas the most reverent Bishops of Egypt postponed subscribing
130   4”,30 |              as others say, thirteen) bishops of the same Patriarch of
131   4”,30 |        Alexandria’s Patriarch for his bishops[114] not to make any move
132   6     |               were also present three bishops representing the Westerners
133   7     |             single will, and that the bishops who attended it anathematized
134   7”,3  |                on the other hand, the bishops under the Patriarch of Constantinople
135   7”,8  |             synods or councils of the Bishops in each province must be
136   7”,8  |         council of the aforementioned Bishops to be held by all means
137   7”,8  |               designate. As for those Bishops who fail to attend the meeting,
138   7”,8  |               command that a synod of Bishops be held in any event and
139   7”,8  |              it advisable. As for any bishops that remain in their bishoprics,
140   7”,12 |               the word “elders” means bishops, according to St. Chrysostom,
141   7”,17 |            and have run over to other Bishops, and without the consent
142   7”,19 |             is meant preeminently the Bishops, but secondarily also the
143   7”,21 |               office, whether they be Bishops or Clergymen whatsoever,
144   7”,21 |           present Canon commands that bishops and all other clerics whatsoever
145   7”,24 |             immutably assigned to the Bishops holding them, and especially
146   7”,28 |             stricken from the book of bishops. But if they say this to
147   7”,30 |               which says that neither bishops nor priests may conduct
148   7”,33 |             or hatching plots against Bishops or fellow Clergymen, they
149   7”,38 |            and be ordained by his own bishops, in accordance with the
150   7”,38 |      imitation of the rest of all the Bishops who are under the said most
151   7”,38 |             to be ordained by his own bishops, in accordance with the
152   7”,38 |              just as are also all the bishops in Cyprus, and whenever
153   7”,59 |        prisons by many Patriarchs and Bishops. See also Ap. c. LXXIX.~ ~
154   7”,69 |             ch. 30) that a council of bishops met in Antioch in the third
155   7”,69 |         council addressed a letter to bishops Dionysius of Rome and Maximus
156   7”,73 |            XLIX of Carthage prohibits bishops, clerics, and laymen from
157   7”,79 |       Sardican Canon, which says that bishops must not leave their eparchy
158   7”,79 |             Council has taken it that bishops must not absent themselves
159   7”,79 |              them with regard also to bishops. Just as c. XII of the same
160   7”,101|     everything to the judgment of the bishops and spirituals (i.e., confessors),
161   8”,3  |          bishopric to be appointed by bishops, as was decreed by the holy
162   8”,3  |            void and invalid; and that bishops are to be elected by bishops,
163   8”,3  |          bishops are to be elected by bishops, in accordance with a process
164   8”,3  |           vote subsequently after the bishops for those about to be admitted
165   8”,4  |           general, to the effect that bishops, or clergymen, or monks
166   8”,4  |             and by deed commanded the bishops of the Ephesians, and through
167   8”,4  |       Ephesians, and through them all bishops subsequent thereto, not
168   8”,4  |             to shameful profits, from bishops, or clergymen, or monks
169   8”,6  |       province through an assembly of Bishops, but on account of the inconvenience
170   8”,6  |              evangelical matters, the Bishops assembled must engage in
171   8”,6  |           inasmuch as two Councils of bishops cannot be held each year
172   8”,6  |    evangelical decrees, therefore the bishops assembled must see to it
173   8”,11 |               to Metropolitans if the Bishops under them do not care to
174   8”,11 |              to say. Likewise in case bishops fail to appoint a steward
175   8”,14 |             ancient custom, Auxiliary Bishops may only with the permission
176   8”,14 |               Likewise even Auxiliary Bishops (Chorepiscopi) are permitted
177   8”,16 |              to the sacerdotal order. Bishops or clergymen, therefore,
178   8”,16 |            present Canon decrees that bishops and clerics who wear splendid
179   8”,23 |               conciliar letter to the bishops in Alexandria, stated in
180   8”,23 |               that the ordinations of bishops ought to be ratified by
181   8”,23 |            latter must ordain all the bishops subject to his jurisdiction.
182   8”,23 |            used to be the custom with bishops of Egypt and of Libya and
183   8”,23 |              Peter’s time, since some bishops in Pentapolis in Upper Libya
184   8”,23 |            XXXIV, which says that the bishops of each nation ought to
185   8”,23 |             there, but also to depose bishops and metropolitans of that
186   8”,23 |               to dare to ordain other bishops in the diocese of Alexandria,
187   8”,23 |     Alexandria authority over all the bishops in Egypt, etc. And this
188   8”,23 |              the present Canon by the Bishops from Egypt at the Council
189   8”,23 |        formerly been called specially Bishops of the Apostolic thrones,
190   8”,23 |          different things: either the bishops who were made superintendents
191   8”,23 |           Book V, ch. 8). One of such bishops was St. Gregory of Nyssa,
192   8”,23 |             it properly signifies the bishops who have the first honor
193   8”,23 |              that of Jerusalem. These bishops were called on the principle
194   8”,23 |             do not pay regard to what bishops say about themselves, but
195   8”,23 |       seniority and privileges of the Bishops of Rome, of Alexandria,
196   8”,23 |             the Arabic text calls the bishops of Alexandria and of Rome
197   8”,23 |              were allowed also to the bishops of Caesarea, of Cappadocia,
198   8”,23 |        concerning Felix and Liberius, bishops of Rome, Sozomen states
199   8”,23 |              Alexandria never had two bishops. And (Pope) Cornelius, the
200   8”,23 |                says to Titus: Appoint Bishops, as I have ordered thee,
201   8”,23 |               Africa and banished 120 bishops to the island of Sardinia,
202   8”,23 |             through the agency of the bishops in communion and of like
203   8”,23 |               say, after the Egyptian bishops came to Byzantium together
204   8”,23 |        concerning differences between bishops and clergymen he says: “
205   8”,23 |              Council states that “all bishops and clergymen or laymen
206   8”,23 |               councils and synods and bishops, but also by every Orthodox
207   8”,23 |               Symbol of) faith of the Bishops who convened in Nicaea,
208   8”,23 |       apologies in defense of certain bishops of Phoenicia, who had been
209   8”,23 |              C. did not reprimand the bishops in Pamphylia for failing
210   8”,23 |          words of the letter that the bishops in Pamphylia wrangled a
211   8”,23 |          seeing that Severus sent two bishops with a view to enticing
212   8”,23 |          Archangel Michael died?” The bishops of Severus replied to him
213   8”,23 |          reason why this Canon allows bishops and monks to become guardians
214   8”,23 |           called upon to do so by the bishops. Peter the Chartophylax
215   8”,23 |              anyone dishonors all the Bishops of the Diocese, which is
216   8”,23 |           Patriarch together with the bishops subject to him. So the Exarch
217   8”,23 |       reference to provinces in which bishops were being ordained that
218   8”,23 |            grabbed up greedily by any bishops when as a matter of fact
219   8”,23 |            Apostles commands that the bishops of each nation ought to
220   8”,23 |    Constantinople he deposed thirteen bishops from office. The Bishop
221   8”,23 |              where, upon the death of bishops, many disturbances followed
222   8”,23 |         having authority over all the bishops and metropolitans included
223   8”,23 |               together with the other bishops of the see, has the right
224   8”,23 |          Constantinople to ordain the bishops in Asia, Pontus, and Thrace;
225   8”,23 |             was first accorded to the Bishops of Constantinople Sergius
226   8”,23 |         All-holiest,” and so were the Bishops of Alexandria, of Antioch,
227   8”,23 |     subsequent to the Cappadocian the Bishops of Constantinople Epiphanius,
228   8”,23 |              consented to let the ten bishops of the Egyptians merely
229   8”,23 |               him, forty-three of the bishops who attended the former
230   8”,23 |            this Council, and that the Bishops of Sardinia, of Thessalonica,
231   8”,23 |            Paul (which in speaking of bishops says: “If any be blameless,
232   8”,23 |         Africa and which decreed that bishops, presbyters, and deacons
233   8”,23 |               that the principle that bishops must abstain from their
234   8”,23 |             Discourse) says: “Appoint bishops, if any be blameless, the
235   8”,23 |              deacons are classed with bishops and presbyters and numbers
236   8”,23 |               of other Patriarchs and Bishops.” In agreement with the
237   8”,23 |                or shepherds), and the Bishops “Archpastors” (or chief
238   8”,23 |             thev are assessors to the Bishops (i.e., entitled to sit with
239   8”,23 |               to be suppressed by the bishops and spirituals; and they
240   8”,23 |  excommunications as penalties by the bishops and spirituals, as ought
241   8”,23 |             to force in order to make bishops and clerics shave off their
242   8”,23 |             afterwards be exiled. The bishops and ecdici (or officers)
243   8”,23 |       speeches and orations which the bishops and monks made in connection
244   8”,23 |               the Confessors and holy Bishops, because they are renewing
245   8”,23 |               consequently it teaches bishops and priests not to admit