Canon 83 No Eucharist given to the dead

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 give of the Eucharist to the bodies of the departed. For it is written, "Take, eat"; but the bodies of the dead can neither take nor eat.

Μηδεὶς τοῖς σώμασι τῶν τελευτησάντων τῆς εὐχαριστίας μεταδιδότω. Γέγραπται γάρ· Λάβετε, φάγετε· τὰ δὲ τῶν νεκρῶν σώματα, οὐδὲ λαβεῖν δύναται, οὐδὲ φαγεῖν.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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