Canon 80 Absence from church on three Sundays

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

If any bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, or any of those numbered in the clergy, or a layman, having no graver necessity or difficult business such as to keep him away from his own church for a very long time, but staying in the city, does not come to the assembly on three Lord's days in three weeks, if he is a cleric, let him be deposed; if a layman, let him be removed from communion.

Εἴ τις ἐπίσκοπος, ἢ πρεσβύτερος, ἢ διάκονος, ἢ τῶν ἐν τῷ κλήρῳ καταλεγομένων, ἢ λαϊκός, μηδεμίαν ἀνάγκην βαρυτέραν ἔχοι, ἢ πρᾶγμα δυσχερές, ὥστε ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀπολείπεσθαι τῆς αὐτοῦ ἐκκλησίας, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν πόλει διάγων, τρεῖς Κυριακὰς ἡμέρας ἐν τρισὶν ἑβδομάσι μὴ συνέρχοιτο, εἰ μὲν κληρικὸς εἴη, καθαιρείσθω· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἀποκινείσθω τῆς κοινωνίας.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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