Canon 77 Clergy and laymen not to bathe with 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

That those of priestly rank, or clerics, or ascetics must not bathe in a bath-house with women; nor any Christian layman; for this is the foremost reproach among the gentiles. And if anyone is caught in this, if he is a cleric, let him be deposed; if a layman, let him be excommunicated.

Ὅτι οὐ δεῖ ἱερατικούς, ἢ κληρικούς, ἢ ἀσκητάς, ἐν βαλανείῳ μετὰ γυναικῶν ἀπολούεσθαι· οὐδὲ πάντα Χριστιανὸν λαϊκόν· αὕτη γὰρ πρώτη κατάγνωσις παρὰ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. Εἰ δέ τις ἐπὶ τούτῳ φωραθείη, εἰ μὲν κληρικὸς εἴη, καθαιρείσθω· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἀφοριζέσθω.

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