The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 2
Canon 2 Earlier canons ratified and the Apostolic Constitutions rejected
Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Τρούλλῳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Πενθέκτης Συνόδου
The Council in Trullo · Constantinople, 691 to 692 · convened by the emperor Justinian II · The Quinisext Council (Trullo, 692) on the map
And this also has seemed good to this holy synod, most excellently and most earnestly: that from now on there should remain firm and secure, for the care of souls and the healing of passions, the eighty-five canons received and ratified by the holy and blessed Fathers before us, and moreover handed down to us in the name of the holy and glorious Apostles. But since in these canons we are commanded to receive the Constitutions of the same holy Apostles through Clement, into which long ago certain spurious things, foreign to piety, were inserted by the heterodox to the harm of the Church, which have darkened for us the comely beauty of the divine doctrines, we have fittingly made the rejection of such Constitutions, for the edification and security of the most Christian flock, in no way admitting the offspring of heretical false speaking, nor weaving them into the genuine and entire teaching of the Apostles. And we set our seal also upon all the other sacred canons set forth by our holy and blessed Fathers, that is, of the three hundred and eighteen holy Fathers assembled at Nicaea, and of those at Ancyra; further also of those at Neocaesarea, likewise also of those at Gangra; and besides these also of those at Antioch in Syria; moreover also of those at Laodicea in Phrygia; further also of the one hundred and fifty who came together in this God-guarded and imperial city, and of the two hundred who were formerly assembled in the metropolis of the Ephesians; and of the six hundred and thirty holy and blessed Fathers at Chalcedon; likewise also of those at Sardica; further also of those at Carthage; and furthermore also of those who came together again in this God-guarded and imperial city under Nectarius, the president of this imperial city, and Theophilus, who was archbishop of Alexandria; moreover also of Dionysius, who was archbishop of the great city of Alexandria, and of Peter, who was of Alexandria, and a martyr, and of Gregory, who was bishop of Neocaesarea, the Wonderworker, of Athanasius archbishop of Alexandria, of Basil archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, of Gregory bishop of Nyssa, of Gregory the Theologian, of Amphilochius of Iconium, of Timothy, who was formerly archbishop of Alexandria, of Theophilus, archbishop of the same great city of the Alexandrians, of Cyril, archbishop of Alexandria, and of Gennadius, who was patriarch of this God-guarded and imperial city; and further also the canon set forth by Cyprian, who was archbishop of the country of the Africans and a martyr, and by the synod with him, which prevailed in the places of the aforesaid presidents, and there only, according to the custom handed down to them; and that no one be permitted to counterfeit or to set aside the canons declared above, or to receive other canons besides those here set forth, composed under false titles by certain persons who attempted to peddle the truth. And if anyone be caught innovating upon any of the said canons, or attempting to overturn it, he shall be liable according to that canon, receiving the penance as it itself prescribes, and being healed through it in that very thing in which he offends.
Ἔδοξε δὲ καὶ τοῦτο τῇ ἁγίᾳ ταύτῃ συνόδῳ κάλλιστά τε καὶ σπουδαιότατα, ὥστε μένειν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν βεβαίους καὶ ἀσφαλεῖς, πρὸς ψυχῶν θεραπείαν καὶ ἰατρείαν παθῶν, τοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν πρὸ ἡμῶν ἁγίων καὶ μακαρίων Πατέρων δεχθέντας καὶ κυρωθέντας, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ παραδοθέντας ἡμῖν ὀνόματι τῶν ἁγίων καὶ ἐνδόξων Ἀποστόλων ὀγδοήκοντα πέντε κανόνας. Ἐπειδὴ δ᾿ ἐν τούτοις τοῖς κανόσιν ἐντέταλται δέχεσθαι ἡμᾶς τὰς τῶν αὐτῶν ἁγίων Ἀποστόλων διὰ Κλήμεντος Διατάξεις, αἷς τισι πάλαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἑτεροδόξων ἐπὶ λύμῃ τῆς ἐκκλησίας νόθα τινὰ καὶ ξένα τῆς εὐσεβείας παρενετέθησαν, τὸ εὐπρεπὲς κάλλος τῶν θείων δογμάτων ἡμῖν ἀμαυρώσαντα· τὴν τῶν τοιούτων Διατάξεων προσφόρως ἀποβολὴν πεποιήμεθα πρὸς τὴν τοῦ χριστιανικωτάτου ποιμνίου οἰκοδομὴν καὶ ἀσφάλειαν, οὐδαμῶς ἐγκρίνοντες τὰ τῆς αἱρετικῆς ψευδολογίας κυήματα, καὶ τῇ γνησίᾳ τῶν Ἀποστόλων καὶ ὁλοκλήρῳ διδαχῇ παρενείροντες. Ἐπισφραγίζομεν δὲ καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς πάντας ἱεροὺς κανόνας, τοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν ἁγίων καὶ μακαρίων Πατέρων ἡμῶν ἐκτεθέντας, τουτέστι τῶν τε ἐν Νικαίᾳ συναθροισθέντων τριακοσίων δεκαοκτὼ ἁγίων Πατέρων, καὶ τῶν ἐν Ἀγκύρᾳ· ἔτι μὴν καὶ τῶν ἐν Νεοκαισαρείᾳ, ὡσαύτως καὶ τῶν ἐν Γάγγραις· πρὸς τούτοις δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας· ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τῶν ἐν Λαοδικείᾳ τῆς Φρυγίας· προσέτι καὶ τῶν ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα, τῶν ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ θεοφυλάκτῳ καὶ βασιλίδι συνελθόντων πόλει, καὶ τῶν διακοσίων, τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἐφεσίων μητροπόλει τὸ πρότερον συναγηγερμένων· καὶ τῶν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι, τῶν ἑξακοσίων τριάκοντα ἁγίων καὶ μακαρίων Πατέρων· ὡσαύτως καὶ τῶν ἐν Σαρδικῇ· ἔτι μὴν καὶ τῶν ἐν Καρθαγένῃ· προσέτι γε μὴν καὶ τῶν αὖθις ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ θεοφυλάκτῳ καὶ βασιλίδι πόλει συνελθόντων ἐπὶ Νεκταρίου τοῦ τῆς βασιλίδος ταύτης πόλεως προέδρου, καὶ Θεοφίλου, τοῦ γενομένου Ἀλεξανδρείας ἀρχιεπισκόπου· ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ Διονυσίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου γενομένου Ἀλεξανδρείας μεγαλοπόλεως, καὶ Πέτρου γενομένου Ἀλεξανδρείας, καὶ μάρτυρος, καὶ Γρηγορίου ἐπισκόπου γενομένου Νεοκαισαρείας, τοῦ θαυματουργοῦ, Ἀθανασίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου Ἀλεξανδρείας, Βασιλείου ἀρχιεπισκόπου Καισαρείας Καππαδοκίας, Γρηγορίου ἐπισκόπου Νύσσης, Γρηγορίου τοῦ Θεολόγου, Ἀμφιλοχίου τοῦ Ἰκονίου, Τιμοθέου ἀρχιεπισκόπου γενομένου Ἀλεξανδρείας τὸ πρότερον, Θεοφίλου ἀρχιεπισκόπου τῆς αὐτῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων μεγαλοπόλεως, Κυρίλλου ἀρχιεπισκόπου τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, καὶ Γενναδίου Πατριάρχου γενομένου τῆς θεοφυλάκτου ταύτης καὶ βασιλίδος πόλεως· ἔτι μὴν καὶ τὸν ὑπὸ Κυπριανοῦ, τοῦ γενομένου ἀρχιεπισκόπου τῆς Ἄφρων χώρας καὶ μάρτυρος, καὶ τῆς κατ᾿ αὐτὸν συνόδου ἐκτεθέντα κανόνα, ὃς ἐν τοῖς τῶν προειρημένων προέδρων τόποις, καὶ μόνον, κατὰ τὸ παραδοθὲν αὐτοῖς ἔθος, ἐκράτησε· καὶ μηδενὶ ἐξεῖναι τοὺς προδηλωθέντας παραχαράττειν κανόνας, ἢ ἀθετεῖν, ἢ ἑτέρους παρὰ τοὺς προκειμένους παραδέχεσθαι κανόνας, ψευδεπιγράφως ὑπό τινων συντεθέντας, τῶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν καπηλεύειν ἐπιχειρησάντων. Εἰ δέ τις ἁλῶ κανόνα τινὰ τῶν εἰρημένων καινοτομῶν, ἢ ἀνατρέπειν ἐπιχειρῶν, ὑπεύθυνος ἔσται κατὰ τὸν τοιοῦτον κανόνα, ὡς αὐτὸς διαγορεύει, τὴν ἐπιτιμίαν δεχόμενος, καὶ δι᾿ αὐτοῦ, ἐν ᾧ περ πταίει θεραπευόμενος.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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