The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 25
Canon 25 Rural parishes held thirty years stay with their bishop
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
In addition to the others, we renew also the canon which declares that the rural or country parishes in each church shall remain unshaken with the bishops who hold them, and especially if they have held them without force and administered them for a period of thirty years. But if within the thirty years there has been, or should be, any dispute about them, it is to be permitted to those who say they are wronged to raise the matter before the synod of the province.
Πρὸς τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνανεοῦμεν καὶ τὸν κανόνα τὸν διαγορεύοντα τὰς καθ᾿ ἑκάστην ἐκκλησίαν ἀγροικικὰς παροικίας, ἢ ἐγχωρίους, μένειν ἀπαρασαλεύτους παρὰ τοῖς κατέχουσιν αὐτὰς ἐπισκόποις, καὶ μάλιστα, εἰ τριακονταετῆ χρόνον αὐτὰς ἀβιάστως διακατέχοντες ᾠκονόμησαν. Εἰ δὲ ἐντὸς τῶν τριάκοντα ἐτῶν γεγένηταί τις, ἢ γένηται περὶ αὐτῶν ἀμφισβήτησις, ἐξεῖναι τοῖς λέγουσιν ἠδικεῖσθαι, περὶ τούτου κινεῖν παρὰ τῇ συνόδῳ τῆς ἐπαρχίας.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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