Canon 3 Penalties for clergy in digamy or unlawful marriages

Since our pious and Christ-loving emperor has addressed this holy and ecumenical council, that it should render those enrolled in the clergy, who also convey divine things to others, pure and blameless ministers, and worthy of the noetic sacrifice of the great God, who is both Victim and High Priest, and should cleanse away the pollutions rubbed onto them from unlawful marriages; and since, with regard to this, those of the most holy Church of the Romans proposed that the canon of akribeia be kept, and those under the throne of this God-guarded and imperial city the canon of love for mankind and compassion: we, mixing both into one, in a fatherly and at the same time God-loving manner, so that we might leave neither the gentle slack nor the severe harsh, and especially since the fall through ignorance extends to a multitude of not a few men, judge it right that those who have been entangled in two marriages, and who up to the fifteenth of the past month of January, of the past fourth indiction, in the year six thousand one hundred and ninety-nine, have been enslaved to the sin and have not chosen to return to sobriety from it, be subjected to canonical deposition. But as for those who fell into this passion of digamy, yet before our cognizance recognised what was profitable, and cut the evil off from themselves, and drove far away this strange and bastard union, or those whose wives by the second marriage have already died, or who themselves have looked towards conversion, having learned chastity instead and having quickly forgotten their former transgressions, whether they happen to be presbyters or deacons: it has seemed good that these cease from every priestly ministry, that is, function, having now been placed under penance for a certain fixed time; but that they share in the honour of seat and of standing, being content with precedence and weeping before the Lord that the transgression committed out of ignorance be forgiven them; for it is inconsistent that one who ought to tend his own wounds should bless another. But those joined to one wife, if the woman taken happened to be a widow, and likewise also those who after ordination unlawfully entered into one marriage, that is, presbyters and deacons and subdeacons, having been already excluded for a short time from the sacred ministry and placed under penance, are to be restored again to their own grades, in no way advancing to another, higher grade, their unlawful cohabitation having manifestly been dissolved. These things we have laid down concerning those caught, up to the fifteenth, as has been said, of the month of January of the fourth indiction, in the offences declared above, and for those of the priesthood only; decreeing from the present, and renewing the canon which prescribes, that he who after baptism has been entangled in two marriages, or has acquired a concubine, cannot be a bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, or at all of the priestly roll; likewise that he who has taken a widow, or a woman put away, or a courtesan, or a household slave, or one of those on the stage, cannot be a bishop, or presbyter, or at all of the priestly roll.