What Accords with Sound Doctrine

No others shall sing in the Church, save only the canonical singers, who go up into the ambo and sing from a book. At first glance, this c...

The holy things are not to be sent into other dioceses at the feast of Easter by way of eulogiæ. At the time of this canon, a practice had...

The election of those who are to be appointed to the priesthood is not to be committed to the multitude. As has been stated previously, an...

Bishops are to be appointed to the ecclesiastical government by the judgment of the metropolitans and neighboring bishops, after having been...

Presbytides, as they are called, or female presidents, are not to be appointed in the Church. There has been a question as to what is bein...

The members of the Church shall not indiscriminately marry their children to heretics. The adverb indiscriminately is used here in an unf...

The members of the Church are not allowed to meet in the cemeteries, nor attend the so-called martyries of any of the heretics, for prayer o...

Persons converted from the heresy of those who are called Phrygians, even should they be among those reputed by them as clergymen, and even ...

I had posted part of this a couple years ago, but after reading it again recently, more needed to be shared. How the surpassing love of G...

Persons converted from heresies, that is, of the Novatians, Photinians, and Quartodecimans, whether they were catechumens or communicants am...