[
After
Canon
XIV.]
Canon XVIII. (
Of the
Latin
.)
Bishop
Januarius
said: Let your holiness also decree this,
that no bishop be allowed to try to gain for himself a minister in the
church of a bishop of another city and ordain him to one of his own
parishes.
All said: Such is our pleasure, inasmuch as
discord is apt to spring from contentions in this matter, and therefore
the sentence of us all forbids anyone to presume to do
Note.
Van Espen.
It is manifest that these two canons [xviii. of the
Latin and xv. of the Greek], contain the resolution of the same case,
and therefore it is that the Greeks keep only the former which contains
the decree of the synod, made on Hosius’s motion, the suggestion
having been made by Januarius the bishop: which suggestion makes
the first of these canons. [I.e. Latin canon xviij.]