Canon 63 Eating meat with blood, torn by beasts, or carrion

Ἱεροὶ Κανόνες τῶν Ἁγίων καὶ Πανσέπτων Ἀποστόλων

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If any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, or anyone at all of the priestly list, eats meat in the blood of its life, or what has been caught by beasts, or what has died of itself, let him be deposed; for the law has forbidden this; and if he is a layman, let him be excommunicated.

Εἴ τις ἐπίσκοπος, ἢ πρεσβύτερος, ἢ διάκονος, ἢ ὅλως τοῦ καταλόγου τοῦ ἱερατικοῦ, φάγῃ κρέα ἐν αἵματι ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ, ἢ θηριάλωτον, ἢ θνησιμαῖον, καθαιρείσθω· τοῦτο γὰρ ὁ νόμος ἀπεῖπεν· εἰ δὲ λαϊκὸς εἴη, ἀφοριζέσθω.

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