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Edited from a variety of translations (mentioned in the preface) by H. R. Percival
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Canon XXXIII. (Greek xxxvi.)
That presbyters should not sell the goods of the Church in which they are constituted; and that no bishop can rightly use anything the title to which vests in the ecclesiastical maternal centre (matrikos).
It also seemed good that presbyters should not sell the ecclesiastical property where they are settled without their bishop's knowledge; and it is not lawful for bishops to sell the goods of the Church without the council or their presbyters being aware of it. Nor should the bishop without necessity usurp the property of the maternal (matricis) Church [nor should a presbyter usurp the property of his own cure (tituli)]. [435]
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon XXXIII.
A presbyter is not to sell ecclesiastical property without the consent of the bishop. A bishop is not to sell without the approbation of his synod a country property.
Fuchs (Biblioth. der Kirchenvers., vol. iij., p. 5) thinks the text is corrupt in the last sentence and should be corrected by Canon x. of the Council of Carthage of 421, so as to read, "that which is left by will to a rural church in the diocese must not be applied to the Mother Church through the usurpation of the bishop."
Johnson.
"Or title." So I turn the Lat. Titulus for want of a proper English word. It denotes a lesser church in any city or diocese, served by a priest.
"The Mother Church," i.e., The cathedral, the Church in which the bishop resides.
Moreover at this Synod we read all the conciliar decrees of all the Province of Africa in the different synods held in the time of Bishop Aurelius. [436]
Concerning the Synod which assembled in Hippo Regio.
[435] Only found in the Latin.
[436] These interludes or "Digressions," as Van Espen calls them, are found in Dionysius and in the Greek texts.
Reference address : https://www.elpenor.org/ecumenical-councils/carthage-419.asp?pg=33
