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The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neocæsarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods

Canon X

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Likewise, if a deacon have fallen into the same sin, let him have the rank of a minister.

Notes.

Ancient Epitome of Canon X.

A deacon found in the same crime shall remain a minister (huperetes).

Hefele.

By ministers (huperetai) are meant inferior officers of the Church—the so-called minor orders, often including the subdeacons.

This canon is in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian's Decretum, Pars II., Causa xv., Quæst. viii., united with canon ix., and in the following curious form: "Similiter et diaconus, si in eodem culpæ genere fuerit involutus, sese a ministerio cohibebit."

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 14, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.