Canon 48 A bishop's wife enters a distant monastery

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

The wife of him who is advanced to the presidency of a bishopric, having been separated beforehand from her own husband by common consent, after his ordination to the episcopate let her enter a monastery built far from the bishop's residence, and let her enjoy provision from the bishop; and if she proves worthy, let her also be raised to the dignity of the diaconate.

Ἡ τοῦ πρὸς ἐπισκοπῆς προεδρίαν ἀναγομένου γυνή, κατὰ κοινὴν συμφωνίαν τοῦ οἰκείου ἀνδρὸς προδιαζευχθεῖσα, μετὰ τὴν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς χειροτονίαν, ἐν μοναστηρίῳ εἰσίτω, πόῤῥω τῆς τοῦ ἐπισκόπου καταγωγῆς ᾠκοδομημένῳ, καὶ τῆς ἐκ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου προνοίας ἀπολαυέτω· εἰ δὲ καὶ ἀξία φανείη, καὶ πρὸς τὸ τῆς διακονίας ἀναβιβαζέσθω ἀξίωμα.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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