A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

677Canon 7. In oratories on landed estates, the lords of the propertyshall not install wandering clergy against the will of the bishopto whom the rights of that territory belong, unless, perchance,they have been approved, and the bishop has in his discretionappointed them to serve in that place.Canon 26. If any parishes are established in the houses of themighty, and the clergy who serve there have been admonishedby the archdeacon of the city, according to the duty of his office,and they neglect to do what they ought to do for the Church,because under the protection of the lord of the house, let them becorrected according to the ecclesiastical discipline; and if by theagents of these lords, or by these lords themselves of the place, [619]they are prevented from doing any part of their duty toward theChurch, those who do this iniquity are to be deprived of thesacred rites until, having made amends, they are received backinto the peace of the Church. 267Canon 33. If any one has, or asks to have, on his land a diocese[i.e., parish], let him first assign to it sufficient lands and clergywho may there perform their duties, that suitable reverence bedone to the sacred places.(d) V Council of Orleans, A. D. 549, Canons. Bruns, II, 208.At this council no less than seven archbishops, forty-threebishops and representatives of twenty-one other bishops werepresent. It was, therefore, a general council of the FrankishChurch, although politically the Frankish territory was dividedinto three kingdoms held respectively by Childebert, Chlothar,and Theudebald. Orleans itself was in the dominion ofChildebert. Cf. preface to the canons of II Orleans, A.D. 533, which states that that council was attended by fivearchbishops and the deputy of a sixth, as well as by bishops267 Cf. canon 4, Council of Clermont, A. D. 535 (Bruns, II, 188): “The clergyare not in any way to be set against their bishops by the secular potentates.”