Canon 86 Those who keep harlots

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

Those who, to the downfall of souls, gather together and maintain harlots, if they are clerics, we decree to be excommunicated and deposed; and if laymen, to be excommunicated.

Τοὺς ἐπὶ ψυχῶν ὀλίσθῳ πόρνας ἐπισυνάγοντας, καὶ ἐκτρέφοντας, εἰ μὲν κληρικοὶ εἶεν, ἀφορίζεσθαι, καὶ καθαιρεῖσθαι ὁρίζομεν· εἰ δὲ λαϊκοί, ἀφορίζεσθαι.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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