Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 3/The Canons of Carthage/Canons/Canon I

Canon I.

That the statutes of the Nicene Council are to be scrupulously observed.

the bishop said:&#160; Such are the statutes of the Nicene Council, which our fathers at that time brought back with them:&#160; and preserving this form, let these things which follow, adopted and confirmed by us, be kept firm.

Notes.

Let the copies of the decrees of the Nicene Council which our fathers brought back with them from that synod, be observed.

It is certain that C&#230;cilian, then Bishop of Carthage, was present at the Council of Nice; that any other African bishop was there does not appear; but probably he was attended with several clergyman, who were afterwards ordained bishops.