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The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 30

Canon 30 Priests in barbarian churches who separate from wives

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

Wishing to do all things for the edification of the Church, we have determined to exercise oikonomia towards the priests in the barbarian churches as well; so that, if they think they ought to go beyond the apostolic canon, the one concerning not casting out one's own wife on the pretext of piety, and to do more than what has been defined, and on this account, by agreement with their own consorts, abstain from intercourse with one another, we decree that these no longer live with them in any manner whatever, so that thereby they may furnish us with complete proof of their promise. And we have conceded this to them for no other reason than on account of the littleness of their mind and the alien and unsettled character of their ways.

Πάντα πρὸς οἰκοδομὴν τῆς ἐκκλησίας βουλόμενοι διαπράττεσθαι, καὶ τοὺς ἐν ταῖς βαρβαρικαῖς ἐκκλησίαις ἱερέας οἰκονομεῖν διεγνώκαμεν· ὥστε, εἰ τὸν ἀποστολικὸν κανόνα, τὸν περὶ τοῦ προφάσει εὐλαβείας τὴν οἰκείαν γαμετὴν μὴ ἐκβάλλειν, ὑπεραναβαίνειν οἴονται δεῖν, καὶ πέραν τῶν ὁρισθέντων ποιεῖν, ἐκ τούτου τε μετὰ τῶν οἰκείων συμφωνοῦντες συμβίων, τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους ὁμιλίας ἀπέχονται· ὁρίζομεν, τούτους μηκέτι ταύταις συνοικεῖν καθ᾿ οἱονδήποτε τρόπον, ὡς ἂν ἡμῖν ἐντεῦθεν ἐντελῆ τῆς ὑποσχέσεως παρέξοιεν τὴν ἀπόδειξιν. Πρὸς τοῦτο δὲ αὐτοῖς, οὐ δι᾿ ἄλλο τι, ἢ διὰ τὴν τῆς γνώμης μικροψυχίαν, καὶ τὸ τῶν ἠθῶν ἀπεξενωμένον, καὶ ἀπαγές, ἐνδεδώκαμεν.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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