The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 81
Canon 81 No addition to the Thrice-Holy Hymn
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 we have learned that in certain regions, in the Thrice-Holy Hymn, there is proclaimed by way of addition, after "Holy Immortal", the words "Who was crucified for us, have mercy on us"; and this was driven out of that hymn by the holy Fathers of old as foreign to piety, together with the lawless heretic who invented such a phrase; we also, confirming what was formerly piously enacted by our holy Fathers, anathematise those who, after the present definition, still receive such a phrase in churches, or in any other way join it to the Thrice-Holy Hymn. And if the transgressor of what has been decreed is of priestly rank, we command that he be stripped of the priestly dignity; and if a layman or a monk, that he be excommunicated.
Ἐπειδή περ ἔν τισι χώραις μεμαθήκαμεν, ἐν τῷ τρισαγίῳ ὕμνῳ, ἐν προσθήκης μέρει ἐκφωνεῖσθαι μετὰ τό, Ἅγιος ἀθάνατος, τό, Ὁ σταυρωθεὶς δι᾿ ἡμᾶς, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς· τοῦτό τε ὑπὸ τῶν πάλαι ἁγίων Πατέρων, ὡς τῆς εὐσεβείας ἀλλότριον, ἐκ τοῦ τοιούτου ἀπηλάθη ὕμνου, σὺν τῷ τὴν τοιαύτην φωνὴν καινουργήσαντι παρανόμῳ αἱρετικῷ· καὶ ἡμεῖς κυροῦντες τὰ παρὰ τῶν ἁγίων Πατέρων ἡμῶν πρὶν εὐσεβῶς θεσμοθετηθέντα, ἀναθεματίζομεν τοὺς ἔτι μετὰ τὸν παρόντα ὅρον παραδεχομένους τὴν τοιαύτην φωνὴν ἐπ᾿ ἐκκλησίαις, ἢ ἄλλως πως τῷ τρισαγίῳ ὕμνῳ συνάπτοντας. Καὶ εἰ μὲν ἱερατικός ἐστιν ὁ παραβάτης τῶν ὁρισθέντων, ἀπογυμνοῦσθαι τοῦτον τῆς ἱερατικῆς ἀξίας προστάσσομεν· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἢ μοναχός, ἀφορίζεσθαι.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
English: this site's translation of the Greek beside it. Greek: the text of the Pedalion, as transcribed at users.uoa.gr/~nektar and corrected here. About these texts.