Canon 9 No cleric may keep a tavern

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 it not be permitted to any cleric to keep a taverner's shop. For if it is not allowed to such a one to enter into a tavern, how much less to serve others in it, and to take in hand what is not lawful for him? And if he should do any such thing, let him either cease or be deposed.

Μηδενὶ ἐξεῖναι κληρικῷ, καπηλικὸν ἐργατήριον ἔχειν. Εἰ γὰρ τῷ τοιούτῳ εἰσιέναι ἐν καπηλείῳ οὐκ ἐπιτέτραπται, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἄλλοις ἐν τούτῳ διακονεῖσθαι, καὶ ἃ μὴ θέμις αὐτῷ ἐγχειρεῖν; εἰ δέ τι τοιοῦτον διαπράξοιτο, ἢ παυσάσθω ἢ καθαιρείσθω.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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