The Canons of the CCXVII Blessed Fathers who…
The Canons of the CCXVII Blessed Fathers who assembled at Carthage.
The Canons of the 217 Blessed Fathers who…
The Canons of the 217 Blessed Fathers who assembled at Carthage.
If any cleric is ordained he ought to be admonished to observe the constitutions.
That if any bishop is accused the cause should be brought before the primate of his own province.
Canon LXXXIII. (Greek lxxxvi.)
Canon LXXXIV. (Greek lxxxvii.)
Canon LXXXV. (Greek lxxxviii.)
Of making peace between the Churches of Rome and Alexandria.
Canon CVII. (Greek cx. continued.)
Canon CIX. (Greek cxij. continued.)
That infants are baptized for the remission of sins.
Canon CXII. (Greek cxiij. continued.)
Canon CXXVII. (Greek cxxviii.)
Canon CXXXII. (Greek cxxxiii.)
Canon CXXXIII. (Greek cxxxiv.)
Canon CXXXIV. (Continuation of cxxxv. in the Greek.)
Canon CXXXV. (Not numbered in the Greek.)
Canon CXXXVI. (Not numbered in the Greek but with a new heading.)
Canon CXXVI. (Greek cxxvii.)
That Virgins, even when minors, should be given the veil.
Item, it seemed good that whatever bishop, by the necessity of the dangers of virginal purity, when either a powerful suitor or some ravisher is feared, or if she shall be pricked with some scruple of death that she might die unveiled, at the demand either of her parents or of those to whose care she has been entrusted, shall give the veil to a virgin, or shall have given it while she was under twenty-five years of age, the council which has appointed that number of years shall not oppose him.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon CXXVI.
Whosoever has veiled or shall veil a virgin before she is twenty-five years of age (that is give her the habit, or clothe her), being forced thereto on account of a powerful lover, or a ravisher, or deadly disease, provided those who have the charge of her so exhort, shall receive no damage from the synod concerning that age.
This is Canon xviij. of Carthage, a.d. 418. The reference to a former canon is to Canon j. of the second series of the canons of the Synod of Hippo in a.d. 393.