The Holy Canons Apostolic Canon 16
Canon 16 A bishop who receives suspended clergy as clerics
Ἱεροὶ Κανόνες τῶν Ἁγίων καὶ Πανσέπτων Ἀποστόλων
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But if the bishop with whom they are, counting as nothing the suspension decreed against them, receives them as clerics, let him be excommunicated, as a teacher of disorder.
Εἰ δὲ ὁ ἐπίσκοπος, παρ᾿ ᾧ τυγχάνουσι, παρ᾿ οὐδὲν λογισάμενος τὴν κατ᾿ αὐτῶν ὁρισθεῖσαν ἀργίαν, δέξηται αὐτοὺς ὡς κληρικούς, ἀφοριζέσθω, ὡς διδάσκαλος ἀταξίας.
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