Canons

• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 1 — With regard to those presbyters who have offered sacrifices and afterwards returned to the conflict, not with hypocrisy, but in sincerity, it has seemed good that they may retain the honour of their chair; provided…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 2 — It is likewise decreed that deacons who have sacrificed and afterwards resumed the conflict, shall enjoy their other honours, but shall abstain from every sacred ministry, neither bringing forth the bread and the…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 3 — Those who have fled and been apprehended, or have been betrayed by their servants; or those who have been otherwise despoiled of their goods, or have endured tortures, or have been imprisoned and abused, declaring…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 4 — Concerning those who have been forced to sacrifice, and who, in addition, have partaken of feasts in honour of the idols; as many as were haled away, but afterwards went up with a cheerful countenance, and wore their…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 5 — As many, however, as went up in mourning attire and sat down and ate, weeping throughout the whole entertainment, if they have fulfilled the three years as prostrators, let them be received without oblation; and if…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 6 — Concerning those who have yielded merely upon threat of penalties and of the confiscation of their goods, or of banishment, and have sacrificed, and who till this present time have not repented nor been converted,…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 7 — Concerning those who have partaken at a heathen feast in a place appointed for heathens, but who have brought and eaten their own meats, it is decreed that they be received after they have been prostrators two years;…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 8 — Let those who have twice or thrice sacrificed under compulsion, be prostrators four years, and communicate without oblation two years, and the seventh year they shall be received to full communion.vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 9 — As many as have not merely apostatized, but have risen against their brethren and forced them [to apostatize], and have been guilty of their being forced, let these for three years take the place of hearers, and for…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 10 — They who have been made deacons, declaring when they were ordained that they must marry, because they were not able to abide so, and who afterwards have married, shall continue in their ministry, because it was…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 11 — It is decreed that virgins who have been betrothed, and who have afterwards been carried off by others, shall be restored to those to whom they had formerly been betrothed, even though they may have suffered violence…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 12 — It is decreed that they who have offered sacrifice before their baptism, and were afterwards baptized, may be promoted to orders, inasmuch as they have been cleansed.vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 13 — It is not lawful for Chorepiscopi to ordain presbyters or deacons, and most assuredly not presbyters of a city, without the commission of the bishop given in writing, in another parish.vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 14 — It is decreed that among the clergy, presbyters and deacons who abstain from flesh shall taste of it, and afterwards, if they shall so please, may abstain. But if they disdain it, and will not even eat herbs served…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 15 — Concerning things belonging to the church, which presbyters may have sold when there was no bishop, it is decreed that the Church property shall be reclaimed; and it shall be in the discretion of the bishop whether…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 16 — Let those who have been or who are guilty of bestial lusts, if they have sinned while under twenty years of age, be prostrators fifteen years, and afterwards communicate in prayers; then, having passed five years in…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 17 — Defilers of themselves with beasts, being also leprous, who have infected others [with the leprosy of this crime], the holy Synod commands to pray among the hiemantes.vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 18 — If any who have been constituted bishops, but have not been received by the parish to which they were designated, shall invade other parishes and wrong the constituted [bishops] there, stirring up seditions against…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 19 — If any persons who profess virginity shall disregard their profession, let them fulfil the term of digamists. And, moreover, we prohibit women who are virgins from living with men as sisters.vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 20 — If the wife of anyone has committed adultery or if any man commit adultery it seems fit that he shall be restored to full communion after seven years passed in the prescribed degrees [of penance].vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 21 — Concerning women who commit fornication, and destroy that which they have conceived, or who are employed in making drugs for abortion, a former decree excluded them until the hour of death, and to this some have…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 22 — Concerning wilful murderers let them remain prostrators; but at the end of life let them be indulged with full communion.vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 23 — Concerning involuntary homicides, a former decree directs that they be received to full communion after seven years [of penance], according to the prescribed degrees; but this second one, that they fulfil a term of…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 24 — They who practice divination, and follow the customs of the heathen, or who take men to their houses for the invention of sorceries, or for lustrations, fall under the canon of five years’ [penance], according to the…vatican.va
• Synod of Ancyra, Canon 25 — One who had betrothed a maiden, corrupted her sister, so that she conceived. After that he married his betrothed, but she who had been corrupted hanged herself. The parties to this affair were ordered to be received…vatican.va

Editor's excursus

• Synod of Ancyra, Excursus on Second Marriages, Called Digamy — To distinguish contemporaneous from successive bigamy I shall use throughout this volume the word “digamy” to denote the latter, and shall thus avoid much confusion which otherwise is unavoidable.vatican.va