Canon 11 Every church and monastery must have a steward

Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Νικαίᾳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Ζ´ Συνόδου

The Seventh Ecumenical Council · Nicaea, 787 · convened by the empress Irene and the emperor Constantine VI · Seventh Ecumenical Council: Nicaea II (787) on the map

Being all under obligation to keep the divine canons, we ought by every means to preserve inviolate also the one which says that there are to be stewards in each church. And if each metropolitan appoints a steward in his own church, it would be well; but if not, the bishop of Constantinople has leave, of his own authority, to appoint a steward in that metropolitan's church. Likewise also the metropolitans have leave, if the bishops under them do not choose to install stewards in their own churches. And the same is to be kept also in the case of monasteries.

Ὑπόχρεοι ὄντες πάντες τοὺς θείους κανόνας φυλάττειν, καὶ τὸν λέγοντα, οἰκονόμους εἶναι ἐν ἑκάστῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ, παντὶ τρόπῳ ἀπαράτρωτον διατηρεῖν ὀφείλομεν. Καὶ εἰ μὲν ἕκαστος μητροπολίτης ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ αὐτοῦ καθιστᾷ οἰκονόμον, καλῶς ἂν ἔχοι· εἰ δὲ μή γε, ἐξ αὐθεντίας ἰδίας τῷ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπισκόπῳ ἄδειά ἐστι προχειρίζεσθαι οἰκονόμον ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ ἐκκλησίᾳ. Ὡσαύτως καὶ τοῖς μητροπολίταις, εἰ οἱ ὑπ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἐπίσκοποι οὐ προαιροῦνται οἰκονόμους ἐγκαταστῆσαι ἐν ταῖς ἑαυτῶν ἐκκλησίαις· τὸ αὐτὸ δὲ φυλάττεσθαι καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν μοναστηρίων.

The Seventh Ecumenical Council, the canons

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