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To: newberger

Trullo concerned itself with clerical celibacy for priests and deacons. Not bishops. I just checked.


713 posted on 07/15/2013 7:24:19 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge
Trullo concerned itself with clerical celibacy for priests and deacons. Not bishops. I just checked.

Quinisext Council (Fifth-Sixth)[sometimes called the "Trullon Synod"] Canon XII:Moreover, this also has come to our knowledge, that in Africa and Libya, and in other places the most God-beloved bishops in those parts do not refuse to live with their wives, even after consecration, thereby giving scandal and offence to the people. Since, therefore, it is our particular care that all things tend to the good of the flock placed in our hands and committed to us - it has seemed good that henceforth nothing of the kind shall in any way occur. And we say this, not to abolish and overthrow what things were established of old by Apostolic authority, but as caring for the health of the people and their advance to better things, and lest the ecclesiastical state should suffer any reproach...But if any shall have been observed to do such a thing, let him be deposed.

726 posted on 07/15/2013 7:36:19 PM PDT by newberger (Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men in whom there is no salvation.)
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