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The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 99

Canon 99 No meat boiled at the altars for priests

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

This too we have learned is done in the country of the Armenians: that some, boiling pieces of meat inside the holy altars, offer them, assigning portions to the priests in the Jewish manner. Wherefore, keeping the Church unstained, we decree that it is not permitted to any of the priests to receive set-apart pieces of meat from those who offer them; but let them be content with whatever pleases the one who offers, such an offering being made outside the church. And if anyone does not do so, let him be excommunicated.

Καὶ τοῦτο δὲ ἐν τῇ Ἀρμενίων χώρᾳ γίνεσθαι μεμαθήκαμεν· ὥς τινες ἔνδον ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς θυσιαστηρίοις μέλη κρεῶν ἔψοντες, προσάγουσιν, ἀφαιρέματα τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν Ἰουδαϊκῶς ἀπονέμοντες. Ὅθεν τὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας φυλάττοντες ἀκηλίδωτον, ὁρίζομεν, μὴ ἐξεῖναί τινι τῶν ἱερέων ἀφωρισμένα κρεῶν μέλη παρὰ τῶν προσαγόντων λαμβάνειν, ἀλλ᾿ οἷς ἀρεσθῇ ὁ προσάγων, τούτοις ἀρκείσθωσαν, ἔξω τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῆς τοιαύτης γινομένης προσαγωγῆς. Εἰ δέ τις μὴ τοῦτο οὕτω ποιῇ, ἀφοριζέσθω.

The Council in Trullo, the canons

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