Canon
XIII.
No
bishop shall presume to pass
from one province to another, and ordain persons to the dignity of the
ministry in the Church, not even should he have others with him, unless
he should go at the written invitation of the metropolitan and bishops
into whose country he goes. But if he should, without invitation,
proceed irregularly to the ordination of any, or to the regulation of
ecclesiastical affairs which do not concern him, the things done by him
are null, and he himself shall suffer the due punishment of his
irregularity and his unreasonable undertaking, by being forthwith
deposed by the holy Synod.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon
XIII.
If without invitation a bishop shall go into another
province, and shall ordain, and administer affairs, what he does shall
be void and he himself shall be deposed.
Compare with this Apostolic Canon xxxv.; also canon
xxii. of this same synod.
This canon is found in the
Corpus Juris Canonici
,
Gratian’s
Decretum
, Pars II., Causa ix., Quæst. II.,
Can. vj. in the
Versio Prisca
. The Roman Correctors are
not satisfied with it, however, nor with any version and give the Greek
text, to which they add an accurate translation.