The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 34
Canon 34 Clergy and monks who conspire lose their rank
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
Since the priestly canon also declares this clearly, that the crime of conspiracy or of faction is altogether forbidden even by the laws outside the Church, and much more is it fitting to forbid this from happening in the Church of God; we too are careful to observe that, if any clerics or monks should be found either conspiring, or forming factions, or hatching plots against bishops or fellow clerics, let them fall altogether from their own rank.
Καὶ τοῦτο δὲ τοῦ ἱερατικοῦ κανόνος σαφῶς διαγορεύοντος, ὡς τὸ τῆς συνωμοσίας, ἢ φρατρίας ἔγκλημα καὶ παρὰ τῶν ἔξω νόμων πάντῃ κεκώλυται, πολλῷ δὲ μᾶλλον ἐν τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦτο γίνεσθαι ἀπαγορεύειν προσήκει· καὶ ἡμεῖς παραφυλάττειν σπουδάζομεν, ὡς εἴ τινες κληρικοί, ἢ μοναχοὶ εὑρεθεῖεν ἢ συνομνύμενοι, ἢ φατριάζοντες, ἢ κατασκευὰς τυρεύοντες ἐπισκόπων, ἢ συγκληρικῶν, ἐκπιπτέτωσαν πάντῃ τοῦ οἰκείου βαθμοῦ.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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