5Churches are not obliged to support every travelling pilgrim; each decides freely.
6Clergy travelling abroad must have their letters signed by bishops.
7Christians who violate the freedom of freedmen under the church's protection are to be excluded from the church (the text breaks off).
About this work
Author
Anonymous
Attribution
authentic · Council of Gaulish bishops held at Nîmes on 1 October 394 (some date it 396), against wandering clergy from the East, the ordination of women to the diaconate, and abuses of hospitality.
Standing
A local council, not counted here as received by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions as a whole. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
394 (or 396) (probable) · The heading gives 1 October in the consulship of Arcadius and Honorius (394 or 396).
Written at
Nîmes, Gaul (Narbonensis)
Language
Latin
Genre
canon/council
Reference system
ref 0 is the heading and preamble, then canons 1–7 as numbered by Lauchert (5–7 carry no numerals in the OCR)
SBL abbreviation
Conc. Nemaus.Not yet checked
Text from
Friedrich Lauchert, ed., Die Kanones der wichtigsten altkirchlichen Concilien nebst den Apostolischen Kanones (Freiburg i. B. and Leipzig: Mohr, 1896); text read from a Tesseract OCR of the archive.org scan (Printed edition in the public domain)
Critical editions
Hermann Theodor Bruns, ed., Canones apostolorum et conciliorum veterum selecti, vol. 1 (Berlin: Reimer, 1839); Friedrich Lauchert, ed., Die Kanones der wichtigsten altkirchlichen Concilien (Freiburg i. B.: Mohr, 1896); Périclès-Pierre Joannou, ed., Discipline générale antique (IVe-IXe s.), vol. 1.2 (Grottaferrata: Tipografia Italo-Orientale, 1962) (cited, not reproduced)