Canon 5 Clergy and eunuchs may not keep women

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

Let no one of those on the priestly roll keep in his household a woman or a maidservant other than the unsuspected persons mentioned in the canon, thereby keeping himself beyond reproach. And if anyone transgresses what has been defined by us, let him be deposed. And let eunuchs also observe this same thing, taking forethought for their own blamelessness; and if they transgress, if they are clerics, let them be deposed, and if laymen, let them be excommunicated.

Μηδεὶς τῶν ἐν ἱερατικῷ καταλόγῳ, τῶν ἐν τῷ κανόνι ἐμφερομένων ἀνυπόπτων προσώπων ἐκτὸς διάγων, γυναῖκα κεκτήσθω, ἢ θεραπαινίδα, τὸ ἀνεπίληπτον ἑαυτῷ ἐντεῦθεν τηρῶν. Εἰ δὲ παραβαίνει τις τὰ παρ᾿ ἡμῶν ὁρισθέντα, καθαιρείσθω. Τὸ αὐτὸ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ οἱ εὐνοῦχοι παραφυλαττέσθωσαν, τὸ ἄμεμπτον ἑαυτοῖς προνοούμενοι· παραβαίνοντες δέ, εἰ μὲν κληρικοὶ εἶεν, καθαιρείσθωσαν, εἰ δὲ λαϊκοί, ἀφοριζέσθωσαν.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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