Canon 92 Abducting women under the name of marriage

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 carry off women under the name of marriage, or who act together with or assist those who carry them off, the holy synod has decreed, if they are clerics, to fall from their own degree; and if laymen, to be anathematised.

Τοὺς ἁρπάζοντας γυναῖκας ἐπ᾿ ὀνόματι συνοικεσίου, ἢ συμπράττοντας, ἢ συναιρομένους τοῖς ἁρπάζουσιν, ὥρισεν ἡ ἁγία σύνοδος, εἰ μὲν κληρικοὶ εἶεν, ἐκπίπτειν τοῦ οἰκείου βαθμοῦ· εἰ δὲ λαϊκοί, ἀναθεματίζεσθαι.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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