Canon X.
It
shall not be lawful for a
clergyman to be at the same time enrolled in the churches of two
cities, that is, in the church in which he was at first ordained, and
in another to which, because it is greater, he has removed from lust of
empty honour. And those who do so shall be returned to their own
church in which they were originally ordained, and there only shall
they minister. But if any one has heretofore been removed from
one church to another, he shall not intermeddle with the affairs of his
former church, nor with the martyries, almshouses, and hostels
belonging to it. And if, after the decree of this great and
ecumenical Synod, any shall dare to do any of these things now
forbidden, the synod decrees that he shall be degraded from his
rank.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon X.
No cleric shall be recorded on the clergy-list of the
churches of two cities. But if he shall have strayed forth, let
him be returned to his former place. But if he has been
transferred, let him have no share in the affairs of his former
church.
Van Espen, following Christian Lupus, remarks that this
canon is opposed to pluralities. For if a clergyman has by
presentation and institution obtained two churches, he is enrolled in
two churches at the same time, contrary to this canon; but surely that
this be the case, the two churches must needs be in two cities, and
that, in the days of Chalcedon, meant in two dioceses.
Bright.
Here a new institution comes into view, of which there
were many instances. Julian had directed Pagan hospices
(
ξενοδοχεῖα
) to be established on the Christian model (
Epist
. xlix.).
The Basiliad at Cæsarea was a
ξενοδοχεῖον
as well as a
πτωχεῖον
; it
contained
καταγώγια
τοῖς ξένοις
,
as well as for wayfayers, and those who needed assistance on account of
illness, and Basil distinguished various classes of persons engaged in
charitable ministrations, including those who escorted the traveller on
his way (
τοὺς
παραπέμποντας
,
Epist
. xciv.). Jerome writes to Pammachius:
“I hear that you have made a ‘xenodochion’ in the
port of Rome,” and adds that he himself had built a
“diversorium” for pilgrims to Bethlehem (
Epist
.
xvi., 11, 14). Chrysostom reminds his auditors at Constantinople
that “there is a common dwelling set apart by the Church,”
and “called a xenon” (
in Act. Hom
., xlv. 4).
His friend Olympias was munificent to “xenotrophia”
(
Hist. Lausiac
, 144). There was a xenodochion near the
church of the monastic settlement at
Nitria (
ib.
, 7). Ischyrion, in his
memorial read in the 3d session of Chalcedon, complains of his
patriarch Dioscorus for having misapplied funds bequeathed by a
charitable lady
τοῖς
ξενεῶσι καὶ
πτωχείοις
in
Egypt, and says that he himself had been confined by Dioscorus in a
“xenon” for lepers (Mansi, vi. 1013, 1017). Justinian
mentions xenodochia in Cod., i. 3, 49, and their wardens in Novell.,
134, 16. Gregory the Great orders that the accounts of xenodochia
should be audited by the bishop (
Epist
. iv., 27). Charles
the Great provides for the restoration of decayed
“senodochia” (Capitul. of 803; Pertz, Leg., i. 110); and
Alcuin exhorts his pupil, archbishop Eanbald, to think where in the
diocese of York he could establish “xenodochia, id est,
hospitalia” (
Epist. L
.).
This canon is found in the
Corpus Juris Canonici
,
Gratian’s
Decretum
, Pars II., Causa XXI., Q. I., canon
ij., and again Causa XXI., Q. II., canon iij.