The Holy Canons Ephesus Canon 7
Canon 7 No faith may be composed other than Nicaea's
Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Ἐφέσῳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Γ´ Συνόδου
The Third Ecumenical Council · Ephesus, 431 · convened by the emperor Theodosius the Younger · Third Ecumenical Council: Ephesus (431) on the map
When these things had been read, the holy synod decreed that it is lawful for no one to bring forward, that is, to write or compose, a faith other than that defined by the holy Fathers who were gathered in the city of the Nicaeans, with the Holy Spirit. And those who dare either to compose another faith, or to present it, or to offer it to those who wish to turn to the knowledge of the truth, whether from paganism, or from Judaism, or from any heresy whatsoever: these, if they are bishops or clerics, are to be alien, the bishops from the episcopate and the clerics from the clergy; and if they are laymen, they are to be anathematised. And in the same manner, if any are detected, whether bishops, or clerics, or laymen, either holding or teaching the things in the exposition presented by Charisius the presbyter concerning how the only-begotten Son of God became man, that is, the foul and perverted doctrines of Nestorius, which are also subjoined, let them be subject to the sentence of this holy and ecumenical council; so that, that is to say, the bishop is to be alienated from the episcopate and to be deposed, and the cleric likewise is to fall from the clergy; and if anyone is a layman, let him too be anathematised, as has been said before.
Τούτων ἀναγνωσθέντων, ὥρισεν ἡ ἁγία σύνοδος, ἑτέραν πίστιν μηδενὶ ἐξεῖναι προφέρειν, ἤγουν συγγράφειν, ἢ συντιθέναι, παρὰ τὴν ὁρισθεῖσαν παρὰ τῶν ἁγίων Πατέρων, τῶν ἐν τῇ Νικαέων συναχθέντων πόλει, σὺν ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι. Τοὺς δὲ τολμῶντας ἢ συντιθέναι πίστιν ἑτέραν, ἢ γοῦν προκομίζειν, ἢ προφέρειν τοῖς θέλουσιν ἐπιστρέφειν εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν τῆς ἀληθείας, ἢ ἐξ ἑλληνισμοῦ, ἢ ἐξ ἰουδαϊσμοῦ, ἢ γοῦν ἐξ αἱρέσεως οἱασδηποτοῦν· τούτους, εἰ μὲν εἶεν ἐπίσκοποι, ἢ κληρικοί, ἀλλοτρίους εἶναι τοὺς ἐπισκόπους τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς, καὶ τοὺς κληρικοὺς τοῦ κλήρου· εἰ δὲ λαϊκοὶ εἶεν ἀναθεματίζεσθαι. Κατὰ τὸν ἴσον δὲ τρόπον, εἰ φωραθεῖεν τινες, εἴτε ἐπίσκοποι, εἴτε κληρικοί, εἴτε λαϊκοὶ ἢ φρονοῦντες, ἢ διδάσκοντες τὰ ἐν τῇ προκομισθείσῃ ἐκθέσει παρὰ Χαρισίου τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου, περὶ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως τοῦ μονογενοῦς Υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἤγουν τὰ μιαρὰ καὶ διεστραμμένα τοῦ Νεστορίου δόγματα, ἃ καὶ ὑποτέτακται, ὑποκείσθωσαν τῇ ἀποφάσει τῆς ἁγίας ταύτης καὶ οἰκουμενικῆς συνόδου· ὥστε δηλονότι, τὸν μὲν ἐπίσκοπον, ἀπαλλοτριοῦσθαι τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς, καὶ εἶναι καθῃρημένον· τὸν δὲ κληρικόν, ὁμοίως ἐκπίπτειν τοῦ κλήρου· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός τις εἴη, καὶ οὗτος ἀναθεματιζέσθω, καθὰ προείρηται.
The Third Ecumenical Council, the canons
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