Canon 24 Consecrated monasteries remain monasteries for ever

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

Monasteries once consecrated with the consent of the bishop are to remain monasteries for ever, and the property belonging to them is to be kept, and they are no longer to become worldly dwellings; and those who allow this to happen are to be subject to the penalties of the canons.

Τὰ ἅπαξ καθιερωθέντα μοναστήρια, κατὰ γνώμην ἐπισκόπου, μένειν εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς μοναστήρια, καὶ τὰ ἀνήκοντα αὐτοῖς πράγματα φυλάττεσθαι, καὶ μηκέτι γίνεσθαι ταῦτα κοσμικὰ καταγώγια· τοὺς δὲ συγχωροῦντας τοῦτο γίνεσθαι, ὑποκεῖσθαι τοῖς ἐκ τῶν κανόνων ἐπιτιμίοις.

The Fourth Ecumenical Council, the canons

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