Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 1/The Council of Neocaesarea/Canons/Canon X

Canon X.

, if a deacon have fallen into the same sin, let him have the rank of a minister.

Notes.

A deacon found in the same crime shall remain a minister (&#8017;&#960;&#951;&#961;&#8051;&#964;&#951;&#962;).

By ministers (&#8017;&#960;&#8053;&#961;&#949;&#964;&#945;&#953;) are meant inferior officers of the Church&#8212;the so-called minor orders, often including the subdeacons.

This canon is in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian&#8217;s Decretum, Pars II., Causa xv., Qu&#230;st. viii., united with canon ix., and in the following curious form:&#160; &#8220;Similiter et diaconus, si in eodem culp&#230; genere fuerit involutus, sese a ministerio cohibebit.&#8221;