The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 98
Canon 98 Marrying another man's betrothed is adultery
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
He who takes into the communion of marriage a woman betrothed to another, while the man who betrothed her is still living, let him be subject to the charge of adultery.
Ὁ ἑτέρῳ μνηστευθεῖσαν γυναῖκα, ἔτι τοῦ μνηστευσαμένου ζῶντος, πρὸς γάμου κοινωνίαν ἀγόμενος, τῷ τῆς μοιχείας ὑποκείσθω ἐγκλήματι.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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