Canon 66 Killing someone with one blow in a fight

Ἱεροὶ Κανόνες τῶν Ἁγίων καὶ Πανσέπτων Ἀποστόλων

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If any cleric, striking someone in a fight, kills him with the one blow, let him be deposed on account of his rashness; and if he is a layman, let him be excommunicated.

Εἴ τις κληρικός, ἐν μάχῃ τινὰ κρούσας, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑνὸς κρούσματος ἀποκτείνας, καθαιρείσθω διὰ τὴν προπέτειαν αὐτοῦ· ἐὰν δὲ λαϊκὸς ᾖ, ἀφοριζέσθω.

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