Canons of the Council of Orange (441) (complete)
Latin text: Bruns (1839) (Latin text: Bruns (1839), OCR of the archive.org scan).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 1
1Bruns 2:122
Haereticos in mortis discrimine positos si catholici esse desiderant, si desit episcopus, a presbyteris cum chrismate et benedictione consignari placuit
It was decided that heretics placed in danger of death, if they desire to be catholics, should, if a bishop is absent, be sealed by presbyters with chrism and the blessing.
Notes and citation
Summary: Heretics in danger of death who wish to become catholics may be received by a presbyter with chrism if no bishop is present.
- The first council of Orange (Arausio), 8 November 441, under Hilary of Arles. The Latin of the digitization is very poor; clear OCR slips are corrected by logged corrections, and unreadable passages are marked "…".
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): j|j|aeareiico9 io mortis → Haereticos in mortis; discrinune → discrimine; deeit → desit; epiCMXipuS) → episcopus,; a presbyteris cmn chrismate → a presbyteris cum chrismate; benedietiene → benedictione.
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 1 (Bruns 2:122; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 2
2Bruns 2:122
Nullum ministrorum qui baptizandi recepit officium sine chrismate usquam debere progredi, quia inter nos placuit semel chrismari. De eo autem qui in baptismate quacumque necessitate faciente non chrismatus fuerit, in confirmatione sacerdos commonebitur. Nam inter quoslibet chrismatis ipsius nonnisi una benedictio est, non ut praejudicans quidquam, sed ut non necessaria habeatur repetita chrismatio.
None of the ministers who has received the office of baptizing should ever proceed without chrism, because it has been decided among us that one should be chrismated once. But concerning one who, for whatever reason of necessity, was not chrismated in baptism, the bishop will be reminded at the confirmation. For among all, there is only one blessing of the chrism itself; not as prejudging anything, but so that a repeated chrismation may not be held necessary.
Notes and citation
Summary: Baptizers must always use the chrism; one not anointed at baptism is to be anointed at confirmation, since the anointing is not repeated.
- "The bishop" renders sacerdos, here the bishop who confirms.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Nullam → Nullum; intnsstronun → ministrorum; qi4. → qui; baptiflsandi. → baptizandi; ofBcium, → officium; aiue → sine; progredi,- → progredi,; quacuraque → quacumque; hecessitate → necessitate; chrismatus. → chrismatus; praejudi-. cans → praejudicans.
Topics: Baptism, Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 2 (Bruns 2:122; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 3
3Bruns 2:122
Qui recedunt de corpore poenitentia accepta, placuit sine reconciliatoria manus impositione iis communicari, quod morientis sufficit consolationi secundum definitiones patrum, qui hujusmodi communionem congruenter viaticum nominarunt. Quod si supervixerint, stent in ordine poenitentium, et ostensis necessariis poenitentiae fructibus legitimam communionem cum reconciliatoria manus impositione percipiant.
It was decided that those who depart from the body after receiving penance should be given communion without the reconciling imposition of hands, which suffices for the consolation of the dying according to the definitions of the fathers, who fittingly called such communion the viaticum. But if they survive, let them stand in the order of penitents, and, having shown the necessary fruits of penance, receive lawful communion with the reconciling imposition of hands.
Notes and citation
Summary: Penitents in danger of death receive communion as viaticum without the reconciling laying on of hands; if they recover they complete their penance.
- "The definitions of the fathers": Nicaea, canon 13, which calls the last communion the viaticum.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Qm recedunt → Qui recedunt; poenitratia → poenitentia; accqfrta, → accepta,; rteconeihatoria → reconciliatoria; communiciui → communicari,; sofficit → sufficit; coiiSolationi → consolationi; definitieaes → definitiones; jNitrany → patrum,; qtti → qui; hQjumiodi → hujusmodi; coniiminioBrai → communionem; congrueRter → congruenter; viatiouai mminarunt. → viaticum nominarunt.; Qood 81 supervixerinty → Quod si supervixerint,; ordme → ordine; poenitentiiun, → poenitentium,; seoessariis → necessariis; eemmuirionem cnm reconciliatoria → communionem cum reconciliatoria; imposttione → impositione; percijHaat. → percipiant..
Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 13 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)
Topics: Eucharist, Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 3 (Bruns 2:122; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 4
4Bruns 2:122
Poenitentiam desiderantibus clericis non negandam.
Penance is not to be denied to clerics who desire it.
Notes and citation
Summary: Clerics who ask for penance are not to be refused.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 4 (Bruns 2:122; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 5
5Bruns 2:122
Eos qui ad ecclesiam confugerint tradi non oportere, sed loci reverentia et intercessione defendi.
Those who have taken refuge in a church ought not to be handed over, but defended by reverence for the place and by intercession.
Notes and citation
Summary: Those who take refuge in a church are not to be handed over.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Eosi → Eos; confugeruit → confugerint; leci ' → loci; int,cessione → intercessione.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 5 (Bruns 2:122; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 6
6Bruns 2:123
Si quis autem mancipia clericorum pro suis mancipiis ad ecclesiam confugientibus crediderit occupanda, per omnes ecclesias districtissima damnatione feriatur.
But if anyone thinks he may seize the slaves of clerics in place of his own slaves who have taken refuge in a church, let him be struck with the strictest condemnation by all the churches.
Notes and citation
Summary: Anyone who seizes clerics' slaves in retaliation for his own slaves who fled to a church is condemned.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): clericorum pro wm 'raaBeipiii → clericorum pro suis mancipiis ad; confiigientibus → confugientibus; occupanda,- pei ompes → occupanda, per omnes; ctesias → ecclesias.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 6 (Bruns 2:123; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 7
7Bruns 2:123
In ecclesia manumissos vel per testamentum ecclesiae commendatos si quis in servitutem vel obsequium vel ad colonariam conditionem imprimere tentaverit, animadversione ecclesiastica coerceatur.
If anyone tries to force into slavery, or into service, or into the condition of a tenant farmer those freed in church or commended to the church by will, let him be restrained by church discipline.
Notes and citation
Summary: Those freed in church or commended to the church by will may not be reduced again to servitude.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): eccl,sia → ecclesia; testameatum → testamentum; ecclesiae. → ecclesiae; ientaverit, → tentaverit,; coerceatur., → coerceatur..
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 7 (Bruns 2:123; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 8
8Bruns 2:123
Si quis alibi consistentem clericum ordinandum putaverit, prius definiat ut cum ipso habitet. Sic quoque non sine consultatione ejus episcopi cum quo ante habitavit, eum qui fortasse non sine causa diu ab alio ordinatus non est ordinare praesumat
If anyone thinks of ordaining a cleric who lives elsewhere, let him first settle that he live with him. Even so, let him not presume, without consulting the bishop with whom he lived before, to ordain one who perhaps, not without cause, has not long been ordained by the other.
Notes and citation
Summary: A bishop may ordain a cleric from elsewhere only if he will reside with him and after consulting his former bishop.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): puta, verit; → putaverit,; consulta,ione → consultatione; aute → ante; sihe → sine; ordinatus nOn est → ordinatus non est; ordiuare → ordinare.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 8 (Bruns 2:123; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 9
9Bruns 2:123
Si qui autem alienos cives aut alibi consistentes ordinaverint, nec ordinati in ullo accusantur, aut ad se eos revocent aut gratiam ipsis eorum impetrent cum quibus habitaverunt.
But if any have ordained citizens of others or persons living elsewhere, and those ordained are accused of nothing, let them either recall them to themselves or obtain favour for them from those with whom they lived.
Notes and citation
Summary: Bishops who ordain men belonging to another church must either keep them or obtain the other bishop's approval.
- The sense of "recall them to themselves" is uncertain.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): accosantur, → accusantur,; revo cent → revocent; eorum-impetrent → eorum impetrent; quit,us → quibus; habitiuit;^ → habitaverunt..
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 9 (Bruns 2:123; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 10
10Bruns 2:123
Si quis episcoporum in alienae civitatis territorio ecclesiam aedificare disponit, vel pro ftindi sui ^^^ot,o -^ut ecclesiastica utilitate vel pro quacumque sua opportunitate, permissa licentia aedificandi, quia prohibere hoc votum nefas est, non praesumat dedicationem, quae illi omnimodis reservatur in cujus territorio ecclesia assurgit, reservata aedificatori episcopo hac gratia, ut quos desiderat clericos in re sua videre, ipsos ordinet is cujus territorium est, vel si ordinati jam sunt ipsos habere acquiescat. Et omnis ecclesiae ipsius gubernatio ad eum in cujus civitatis territorio ecclesia surrexerit pertinebit. Quod si etiam saecularium quicumque ecclesiam aedificaverit, et alium magis quam eum in cujus territorio aedificat invitandum putaverit, tam ipse cui contra constitutionem ac disciplinam gratificari vult quam omnes episcopi qui ad hujusmodi dedicationem invitantur a conventu abstinebunt. Si qbis '^sHNMMeilt, ijti rdaloni dei,c,lliitiir: si qtti ixcesselit, irdiiieBi rMoptioscat.
If any bishop plans to build a church in the territory of another city, whether for the sake of his estate … or for the good of the church, or for any convenience of his own, permission to build being granted, since it is wrong to forbid such a wish, let him not presume to dedicate it, which is wholly reserved to him in whose territory the church rises; this favour being reserved to the bishop who built it, that the clerics whom he wishes to see in his foundation, these the one whose territory it is shall ordain, or, if they are already ordained, shall agree to have them. And the whole government of that church shall belong to him in whose city's territory the church has risen. And if any layman builds a church and thinks another rather than the one in whose territory he builds should be invited, both the one whom he wishes to favour against the constitution and discipline, and all the bishops who are invited to such a dedication, shall abstain from the assembly. …
Notes and citation
Summary: A bishop who builds a church in another's territory may not dedicate it; the local bishop dedicates and governs it, though he ordains the founder's choice of clergy.
- A few words in the first sentence and the whole last sentence are unreadable in the digitization; marked "…".
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): alienae. → alienae; idvitatis, → civitatis; ecclesuuii → ecclesiam; aediflcare → aedificare; oppprtunitate, → opportunitate,; perinissa → permissa; aediflcandi, → aedificandi,; vottffll.nefas → votum nefas; reBervatur → reservatur; tenritorio → territorio; ecdesia → ecclesia; in le sua → in re sua; omuis → omnis; gubematio → gubernatio; alfum → alium; quam enm in → quam eum in; cojus → cujus; tmitorio → territorio; invitaBdum → invitandum; >tam → tam; couventu → conventu.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 10 (Bruns 2:123; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 11
11Bruns 2:125
Placuit in reatum venire episcopum; qui admonitus de excommunicatione cujuscumque, sine reconciliatione ejus qui excommunicavit, ei communicare praesumpserit, ut integra omnia, si reconciliatio intercesserit, de justitia vel de iniquitate excommunicationis proximae synodo reserventur.
It was decided that a bishop is liable who, having been informed of anyone's excommunication, presumes to communicate with him without the reconciliation of the one who excommunicated him; so that, if reconciliation has intervened, everything, as to the justice or injustice of the excommunication, be reserved intact for the next synod.
Notes and citation
Summary: A bishop who knowingly communicates with someone excommunicated by another bishop is liable; the case goes to the next synod.
- Translated as printed ("si reconciliatio intercesserit"); the clause is often understood with a negative ("if reconciliation has not taken place").
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): episeopnni; → episcopum;; admoDitus → admonitus; excoininuDicatione → excommunicatione; cujuscmuque, → cujuscumque,; ^xcommukiieavit, → excommunicavit,; oommttnicare → communicare; praeaumpBerit, → praesumpserit,; ^xcommunicaticmis → excommunicationis; resefrventur. → reserventur..
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 11 (Bruns 2:125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 12
12Bruns 2:125
Subito obmutescens, prout status est, baptizari aut poenitentiam accipere potest si voluntatis aut praeteritae testimonium aliorum verbis habet aut praesentis in suo nutu.
One who suddenly becomes speechless may, according to his state, be baptized or receive penance, if he has the testimony of his previous will in the words of others, or of his present will in his own nod.
Notes and citation
Summary: One who suddenly loses speech may be baptized or receive penance on the testimony of others to his wish or by his own sign.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ^baptizari → baptizari; testiihonium → testimonium; aHorum → aliorum; praesebtis → praesentis; nojta. → nutu..
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 12 (Bruns 2:125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 13
13Bruns 2:125
Amentibus quaecumque pietatis sunt conferenda.
To the insane, whatever belongs to piety is to be granted.
Notes and citation
Summary: The insane are to receive the sacraments that piety allows.
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 13 (Bruns 2:125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 14
14Bruns 2:125
Energumeni baptizati, si de purgatione sua curant et se sollicitudini clericorum tradunt monitisque obtemperant, omnimodis communicent sacramenti ipsius virtute vel muniendi ab incursu daemonii quo infestantur vel purgandi quorum jam ostenditur vita purgatior.
Baptized energumens, if they take care for their cleansing and give themselves over to the care of the clergy and obey their admonitions, are by all means to communicate, by the power of the sacrament itself, either to be protected from the attack of the demon by which they are troubled, or to be cleansed, whose life is already shown to be purer.
Notes and citation
Summary: Baptized persons troubled by demons who submit to the clergy's care may receive communion.
- "Energumens": those held to be troubled by demons.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Bnerguaieni → Energumeni; eriKcHudini → sollicitudini; niOBitisque → monitisque; obtmiperant, → obtemperant,; oimiimodis → omnimodis; ibcuisu → incursu; qtio → quo; iirfl,tantur vd pm,andi → infestantur vel purgandi; qwmun → quorum; purgatknr. → purgatior..
Topics: Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 14 (Bruns 2:125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 15
15Bruns 2:125
Energumenis catechumenis quantum vel necessitas exegerit vel opportunitas permiserit de baptismate consulendum.
For energumen catechumens, provision is to be made for baptism as far as necessity requires or opportunity permits.
Notes and citation
Summary: Catechumens troubled by demons may be baptized as need and opportunity allow.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Energu,nis y) → Energumenis; neces&itas → necessitas.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 15 (Bruns 2:125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 16
16Bruns 2:125
Qui palam aliquando arrepti sunt, non solum non assumendi ad ullum ordinem clericatus, sed et si jam aliqui ordinati sunt ab imposito officio repellendi.
Those who have at some time been publicly seized are not only not to be taken up into any order of the clergy, but, if any have already been ordained, are to be removed from the office laid upon them.
Notes and citation
Summary: Those who have been publicly possessed may not be ordained, and if ordained are removed.
- "Seized" (arrepti): by a demon.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): ab"imposito → ab imposito; ofBcio → officio; repeliendi. → repellendi..
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 16 (Bruns 2:125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 17
17Bruns 2:125
Cum capsa et calix offerendus est, et admixtione eucharistiae consecrandus.
The chalice is to be offered together with the capsa, and consecrated by the mixing in of the Eucharist.
Notes and citation
Summary: The chalice is to be offered with the capsa and consecrated by mingling in the Eucharist.
- The meaning is uncertain: the capsa is the vessel for the consecrated bread, and the canon seems to require that the chalice be offered with it and a portion of the Eucharist be mixed into it. Translated literally.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): conseCMidtts. → consecrandus..
Topics: Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 17 (Bruns 2:125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 18
18Bruns 2:126
Evangelia deinceps placuit catechumenis legi apud omnes provinciarum nostrarum ecclesias.
It was decided that henceforth the Gospels be read to catechumens in the churches of all our provinces.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Gospel is to be read to catechumens in all the churches of the provinces.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): omncysi → omnes; provinciarun, → provinciarum.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 18 (Bruns 2:126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 19
19Bruns 2:126
Ad baptisterium catechumeni nunquam admittendi.
Catechumens are never to be admitted to the baptistery.
Notes and citation
Summary: Catechumens may not enter the baptistery.
Topics: Baptism
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 19 (Bruns 2:126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 20
20Bruns 2:126
A fidelium benedictione etiam inter domesticas orationes in quantum caveri potest, segregandi informandique sunt ut se revocent, et signandos vel benedicendos semotim offerant.
They are to be separated from the blessing of the faithful even in domestic prayers, as far as can be guarded against, and instructed to withdraw and to present themselves separately to be signed or blessed.
Notes and citation
Summary: Catechumens are not to share the blessing of the faithful even at household prayers, but are blessed separately.
- "They": the catechumens.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): domesticad → domesticas; oratio, nes f → orationes.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 20 (Bruns 2:126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 21
21Bruns 2:126
In nostris provinciis placuit de praesumptoribus, ut sicubi contigerit duos episcopos episcopum invitum facere, auctoribus damnatis, unius eorum ecclesiae ipse qui vim passus est substituatur, si tamen vita respondet; et alter in alterius dejecti loco nihilominus ordinetur. Si voluntarium duo fecerint, et ipse damnabitur, quo cautius ea quae sunt antiquitus statuta serventur
It was decided in our provinces concerning presumptuous persons, that if anywhere it happens that two bishops make a bishop against his will, the authors being condemned, the one who suffered violence is to be put in the place of one of them, if his life answers to it; and another is nonetheless to be ordained in the place of the other who has been deposed. If two do it with his consent, he too shall be condemned, so that what was established of old may be the more carefully kept.
Notes and citation
Summary: If two bishops ordain an unwilling man bishop, both are deposed and he may take one of their sees; if he consented, he too is condemned.
- The canon assumes the rule that three bishops are needed for an ordination (Nicaea, canon 4).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): provindis → provinciis; inyitum → invitum; sub, stituatur, → substituatur,; respoudet; → respondet;; de, jeeli → dejecti; iocp → loco; nihUomi9tts → nihilominus; volimtfaiOBi → voluntarium; fjsceriot, → fecerint,; cautitta → cautius; antiqoitus → antiquitus; sta-^ tota → statuta; servontur → serventur.
Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 4 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 21 (Bruns 2:126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 22
22Bruns 2:126
Sedit praeterea ut deinceps non ordinentur diacones conjugati, nisi qui prius conversionis proposito professi fuerint castitatem.
It was settled moreover that henceforth married men are not to be ordained deacons unless they have first professed chastity with a resolve of conversion.
Notes and citation
Summary: Married men may not be ordained deacons unless they first profess continence.
- Translated as written. "Conversion" (conversio): the adoption of an ascetic life. "Sedit" ("it was settled") as printed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): praeterea ot deinceps → praeterea ut deinceps; ordmentur → ordinentur; dum,eiies → diacones; conjiigatiy nisi qur prius → conjugati, nisi qui prius; fuattot → fuerint; castitatem, → castitatem..
Topics: Marriage, Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 22 (Bruns 2:126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 23
23Bruns 2:126
Si quis autem post acceptam benedictionem leviticam cum uxore sua incontinens invenitur, ab of&Cio abjiciatur.
But if anyone, after receiving the Levitical blessing, is found incontinent with his wife, let him be cast out of his office.
Notes and citation
Summary: A deacon who has relations with his wife after ordination is removed from office.
- "The Levitical blessing": ordination as deacon. Translated as written.
Topics: Marriage, Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 23 (Bruns 2:126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 24
24Bruns 2:126
De his autem qui prius ordinati hoc ipsum inciderunt, Taurinatis synodi sequendam esse sententiam, qua jubentur non ulterius promoveri.
But concerning those who were ordained before and have fallen into this very thing, the sentence of the synod of Turin is to be followed, by which they are ordered not to be promoted further.
Notes and citation
Summary: Deacons ordained earlier who fail in continence are not to be promoted, following the synod of Turin.
- The synod of Turin (398), canon 8.
Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Taur. 8 (Canons of the Council of Turin; allusion)
Topics: Marriage, Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 24 (Bruns 2:126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 25
25Bruns 2:126
De idoneis autem et probatioribus viris, quos clericatui alligari ipsa vitae gratia suggerit, si forte inciderunt matrimonii non ultra subdiaconatum ecclesiasticas capiant dignitates.
But concerning suitable and more approved men, whom the very grace of their life suggests should be bound to the clergy, if perhaps they have fallen into marriage, they are not to receive ecclesiastical dignities beyond the subdiaconate.
Notes and citation
Summary: Worthy men who have married may be ordained, but not beyond the subdiaconate.
- A passage of the edition's apparatus (on the punctuation of the canon) leaked into the text and is removed. The canon's exact sense is uncertain (it may concern men who married again, or who married after a vow); translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): dericatui → clericatui; suggerit,., → suggerit,; duplieorDmqae ei,itoires Jiiajoris interponctionis sigBiim post yoeem wbsU- cata mafriinoni → matrimonii; idtra → ultra; anbdiaoonatum → subdiaconatum; eodesiaaticas → ecclesiasticas; dignitatea. → dignitates..
Topics: Marriage, Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 25 (Bruns 2:126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 26
26Bruns 2:127
Diaconae omnimodis non ordinandae: si quae jam sunt, benedictioni quae populo impenditur capita submittant.
Deaconesses are by no means to be ordained; if there are any already, let them bow their heads to the blessing that is given to the people.
Notes and citation
Summary: Deaconesses are no longer to be ordained; existing ones receive the blessing with the laity.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): sont, → sunt,; bcMtfdictloni → benedictioni; qaao → quae; capfta → capita; subraittanrt. → submittant..
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 26 (Bruns 2:127; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 27
27Bruns 2:127
Viduitatis servandae professionem coram episcopo in secretario habitam, imposita ab episcopo veste viduali indicandam. Raptorem vero talium vel ipsam talis professionis desertricem merito esse damnandam.
The profession of keeping widowhood, made before the bishop in the sacristy, is to be indicated by the widow's garment put on by the bishop. But the abductor of such women, or the woman herself who deserts such a profession, is rightly to be condemned.
Notes and citation
Summary: A widow's vow is made before the bishop and marked by the widow's garment; her abductor, or she if she abandons it, is condemned.
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 27 (Bruns 2:127; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 28
28Bruns 2:127
In utroque sexu desertores professae castitatis praevaricatores habendi, et his omnibus per poenitentiam legitimam consulendum
In both sexes, deserters of professed chastity are to be held transgressors, and for all of these provision is to be made through lawful penance.
Notes and citation
Summary: Men and women who abandon a vow of chastity are transgressors and must do penance.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Id utroqae → In utroque; praevari-.catores → praevaricatores; iMmsulendum → consulendum.
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 28 (Bruns 2:127; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 29
29Bruns 2:127
Haec quae subscripsimus cum eorum qudque concor, ^ti toobehmA dedermit, ratK deikicepii inte,Bte ac nostros haberi volumus, et habenda saiieimua non ita praetereuntes qui syMdo aut pei se aut. per conseBSWi auei, vei ad vi- Bui per legatos destinandos adesse detrectant, ut sibi supra nos illi placeant qui patrum statuta despiciunt, quibus bis in anno, quod nobis pro temporum qualitate, difficile est, sanctum est conveniri; adjicientes quod si similibus deinceps paginis pro salubritate ac remediis ecclesiasticis congregare conventus voluerimus, constituamus ut nullus conventus sine alterius conventus denunciatione solvatur. Itaque sequenti anno, si domino ac deo nostro Jesu Christo permittente conceditur, die XV. Kalendas Novembres Luciano in Arausico territorio conventum habebimus: qui ideo tanto prius per conventum ipsum denunciatur, ut tam excusationis libertas quam invitationis necessitas non sit. De die enyn.8(0 kico p,i noi, ipsos eommondbimttt, stngtiii nobiscum in exemplaribus ea quae per nos sunt constituta referentes: reliquos qui defuerant beatissimi fratris nostri Hilarii sollicitudini relinquimus, datis ad ipsos horum exemplaribus commonendos.
These things which we have subscribed … we wish to be held henceforth as ours, and we decree that they are to be held; not so passing over those who refuse to be present at the synod either in person or … through legates to be sent, that those may please themselves above us who despise the statutes of the fathers, by which it is sanctioned that we meet twice a year, which is difficult for us because of the nature of the times; adding that, if henceforth we wish to gather assemblies by similar pages for the welfare and remedies of the church, we establish that no assembly be dissolved without the announcement of another assembly. Therefore next year, if it is granted by the permission of our Lord and God Jesus Christ, on the fifteenth day before the Kalends of November, we will hold an assembly at Lucianum in the territory of Orange; which is announced so long beforehand by this very assembly so that there may be neither freedom to excuse oneself nor need of an invitation. … reporting with us in copies the things that have been decreed by us; the rest who were absent we leave to the care of our most blessed brother Hilary, copies of these being given to them for their admonition.
Notes and citation
Summary: The bishops confirm their decrees, rebuke absentees, and announce the next council for 18 October of the following year at Lucianum near Orange.
- Several stretches of this section are unreadable in the digitization and are marked "…". "The statutes of the fathers … twice a year": Nicaea, canon 5. "Hilary": Hilary of Arles.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): qiBbus → quibus; bi&r → bis; anoLa,, → anno,; qf,oA nobis prp teraporum → quod nobis pro temporum; similibus,deinceps → similibus deinceps; eccIesiastiGis → ecclesiasticis; sine. → sine; seqoenti → sequenti; anno/ → anno,; permittedte → permittente; Hanto → tanto; nonsit. → non sit.; exemplaribils → exemplaribus; onstitota → constituta; reliqUOS → reliquos; deluerant → defuerant; sostri → nostri; Sollicitu- 'diai → sollicitudini.
Extrabiblical texts: Conc. Nic. 5 (Creed and Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325); allusion)
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 29 (Bruns 2:127; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 30
30Bruns 2:127
Post omnia occurrit de imbeeillitatibus fragilitatis humanae, ut si quis episcopus per infirmitatem debilitateitite- Illi,- quam aut hebetudinem sensus inciderit, aut officium oris amiserit, ea quae non nisi per episcopos geruntur, non sub praesentia sua presbyteros agere permittat, sed episcopum evocet cui quod in ecclesia agendum fuerit imponat.
After all this, the matter of the weaknesses of human frailty came up: that if any bishop, through infirmity, falls into some weakness or dullness of mind, or loses the use of speech, he is not to allow presbyters to perform in his presence the things that are done only by bishops, but should call in a bishop to whom he may commit what has to be done in the church.
Notes and citation
Summary: A bishop disabled by illness must call in another bishop for episcopal functions rather than let presbyters perform them.
- One word is garbled in the digitization ("debilitateitite- Illi,- quam", probably "debilitatem aliquam"); translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR debris or slip in the digital text (line-start quotation marks, note letters, broken words, misread letters)): Posl; → Post; hun,anae, → humanae,; oflBcium → officium; am - serit, → amiserit,; prae - sentia → praesentia; faerit → fuerit.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Conc. Araus. I 30 (Bruns 2:127; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/council-orange-441/1/#p-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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