Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 2/Canons/Canon IX

Canon IX.

no cleric be permitted to keep a &#8220;public house.&#8221;&#160; For if it be not permitted to enter a tavern, much more is it forbidden to serve others in it and to carry on a trade which is unlawful for him.&#160; But if he shall have done any such thing, either let him desist or be deposed.

Notes.

If clerics are forbidden to enter public houses, much more are they forbidden to keep them.&#160; Let them either give them up or be deposed.

Compare with this canon liv. of the Apostolic Canons; xxiv. of Laodicea; and xliij. of the Synod of Carthage.