Thursday, July 7, 2011

Just Visiting (Laodicea - Canon 57)

Bishops must not be appointed in villages or country districts, but visitors; and those who have been already appointed must do nothing without the consent of the bishop of the city.  Presbyters, in like manner, must do nothing without the consent of the bishop.

Similar canons had already been given in Antioch and Ancyra as a method of preventing interference or usurpation.

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