Canon XIX.
(
Greek
.)
Bishop
Hosius
said: This is the sentence of my mediocrity
[i.e., unworthiness]—that, since we ought to be gentle and
patient and to be constant in compassion towards all, those who were
once advanced to clerical office in the Church by certain of our
brethren, if they are not willing
to return to the churches to which they were nominated [or, espoused],
should for the future not be received, and that neither Eutychianus
should continue to vindicate to himself the name of bishop, nor yet
that Musæus be accounted a bishop; but that if they should seek
for lay communion, it should not be denied them.
All said: Such is our pleasure.
(This canon is wanting in the
Latin
.)
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canons XVIII. and
XIX.
A clergyman who does not live in the Church among whose
clergy he is enrolled should not be received. Eutychian and
Musæus shall not have the name of bishops. But let them be
admitted to communion with the laity, if they wish.
Both of these canons are lacking in the Latin.
Hefele.
It is clear that the reason why these two canons do not
exist in the Latin text is that they did not apply to the Latin Church
and only contained a special rule for Thessalonica.