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

Canon XXXVIII.

canon which was made by the Fathers we also observe, which thus decreed:&#160; If any city be renewed by imperial authority, or shall have been renewed, let the order of things ecclesiastical follow the civil and public models.

Notes.

If any city is or shall be renewed by the Emperor, the ecclesiastical order shall follow the political and public example.

The canon of the Fathers which the Synod wishes observed is XVII of Chalcedon, the notes on which see.

Here it must be noted that by &#8220;civil and public models&#8221; is signified the &#8220;pragmatic&#8221; or imperial letters, by which the emperors granted to newly raised up or re-edified towns the privilege of other cities, or else annexed them to some Province.