The Holy Canons Chalcedon Canon 6
Canon 6 No one may be ordained at large
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
No one is to be ordained at large, neither presbyter, nor deacon, nor anyone at all of those in the ecclesiastical order, unless the one ordained is specifically proclaimed in a church of a city or of a village, or in a martyr's shrine, or in a monastery. And as for those ordained at large, the holy synod has decreed that such a laying on of hands be of no effect, and that they may act nowhere, to the reproach of him who ordained them.
Μηδένα ἀπολελυμένως χειροτονεῖσθαι, μήτε πρεσβύτερον, μήτε διάκονον, μήτε ὅλως τινὰ τῶν ἐν τῷ ἐκκλησιαστικῷ τάγματι· εἰ μὴ εἰδικῶς ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ πόλεως, ἢ κώμης, ἢ μαρτυρίῳ, ἢ μοναστηρίῳ, ὁ χειροτονούμενος ἐπικηρύττοιτο. Τοὺς δὲ ἀπολύτως χειροτονουμένους, ὥρισεν ἡ ἁγία σύνοδος, ἄκυρον ἔχειν τὴν τοιαύτην χειροθεσίαν, καὶ μηδαμοῦ δύνασθαι ἐνεργεῖν, ἐφ᾿ ὕβρει τοῦ χειροτονήσαντος.
The Fourth Ecumenical Council, the canons
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