Canon 2 Ordination or appointment for money is forbidden

Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Χαλκηδόνι Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Δ´ Συνόδου

The Fourth Ecumenical Council · Chalcedon, 451 · convened by the emperor Marcian · Fourth Ecumenical Council: Chalcedon (451) on the map

If any bishop should perform an ordination for money, and bring down to sale the grace that cannot be sold, and ordain for money a bishop, or a chorepiscopus, or presbyters, or deacons, or any other of those numbered in the clergy; or should appoint for money a steward, or an advocate, or a warden, or anyone at all on the canon, for his own base gain: let him who has attempted this, on being convicted, be in peril of his own rank; and let him who is ordained derive no benefit from the ordination or appointment made by trade, but let him be alien to the dignity or the charge which he obtained for money. And if anyone should appear even as a go-between in such shameful and unlawful gains, let him too, if he is a cleric, fall from his own rank; and if he is a layman or a monk, let him be anathematised.

Εἴ τις ἐπίσκοπος, ἐπὶ χρήμασι χειροτονίαν ποιήσαιτο, καὶ εἰς πρᾶσιν καταγάγοι τὴν ἄπρατον χάριν, καὶ χειροτονήσοι ἐπὶ χρήμασιν ἐπίσκοπον, ἢ χωρεπίσκοπον, ἢ πρεσβυτέρους, ἢ διακόνους, ἢ ἕτερόν τινα τῶν ἐν τῷ κλήρῳ κατηριθμημένων, ἢ προβάλλοιτο ἐπὶ χρήμασιν οἰκονόμον, ἢ ἔκδικον, ἢ παραμονάριον, ἢ ὅλως τινὰ τοῦ κανόνος, δι᾿ αἰσχροκέρδειαν οἰκείαν, ὁ τοῦτο ἐπιχειρήσας, ἐλεγχθείς, κινδυνευέτω περὶ τὸν οἰκεῖον βαθμόν· καὶ ὁ χειροτονούμενος, μηδὲν ἐκ τῆς κατ᾿ ἐμπορίαν ὠφελείσθω χειροτονίας, ἢ προβολῆς· ἀλλ᾿ ἔστω ἀλλότριος τῆς ἀξίας, ἢ τοῦ φροντίσματος, οὗπερ ἐπὶ χρήμασιν ἔτυχεν. Εἰ δέ τις καὶ μεσιτεύων φανείη τοῖς οὕτως αἰσχροῖς καὶ ἀθεμίτοις λήμμασι, καὶ οὗτος, εἰ μὲν κληρικὸς εἴη, τοῦ οἰκείου ἐκπιπτέτω βαθμοῦ· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἢ μονάζων, ἀναθεματιζέσθω.

The Fourth Ecumenical Council, the canons

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