Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 1/Synod of Laodicea/Canons/Canon XXIII

Canon XXIII.

readers and singers have no right to wear an orarium, and to read or sing thus [habited].

Notes.

Cantors and lectors shall not wear the orarium.

Rightly Zonoras here remarks, &#8220;for the same reason (that they should not seem to wish to usurp a ministry not their own) it is not permitted to these to wear the stole, for readers are for the work of reading, and singers for singing,&#8221; so each one should perform his own office.

This canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian&#8217;s Decretum, Pars I., Dist. xxiii., can. xxviij.