The Holy Canons Apostolic Canon 28
Canon 28 A deposed cleric who resumes his ministry
Ἱεροὶ Κανόνες τῶν Ἁγίων καὶ Πανσέπτων Ἀποστόλων
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If any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, justly deposed for manifest crimes, should dare to touch the ministry once entrusted to him, let this man be cut off altogether from the Church.
Εἴ τις ἐπίσκοπος, ἢ πρεσβύτερος, ἢ διάκονος, καθαιρεθεὶς δικαίως, ἐπὶ ἐγκλήμασι φανεροῖς, τολμήσειεν ἅψασθαι τῆς ποτὲ ἐγχειρισθείσης αὐτῷ λειτουργίας, οὗτος παντάπασιν ἐκκοπτέσθω τῆς ἐκκλησίας.
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