Canons

• Council of Carthage, Canon 1 — Aurelius the bishop said: Such are the statutes of the Nicene Council, which our fathers at that time brought back with them: and preserving this form, let these things which follow, adopted and confirmed by us, be…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 2 — The whole Council said: By the favour of God, by a unanimous confession the Church’s faith which through us is handed down should be confessed in this glorious assembly before anything else; then the ecclesiastical…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 3 — Aurelius the bishop said: When at the past council the matter on continency and chastity was considered, those three grades, which by a sort of bond are joined to chastity by their consecration, to wit bishops,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 4 — Faustinus, the bishop of the Potentine Church, in the province of Picenum, a legate of the Roman Church, said: It seems good that a bishop, a presbyter, and a deacon, or whoever perform the sacraments, should be…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 5 — Aurelius, the bishop, said: The cupidity of avarice (which, let no one doubt, is the mother of all evil things), is to be henceforth prohibited, lest anyone should usurp another’s limits, or for gain should pass…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 6 — Fortunatus the bishop, said: In former councils we remember that it was decreed that the chrism or the reconciliation of penitents, as also the consecration of virgins be not done by presbyters: but should anyone be…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 7 — Aurelius the bishop said: If anyone had fallen into peril of death during the absence of the bishop, and had sought to reconcile himself to the divine altars, the presbyter should consult the bishop, and so reconcile…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 8 — Numidius, the bishop of Maxula, said: Moreover, there are very many, not of good life, who think that their elders or bishops should be the butt for accusation; ought such to be easily admitted or no? Aurelius the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 9 — Augustine the bishop, the legate of the Numidian province, said: Deign to enact that if any perchance have been rightly on account of their crimes cast forth from the Church, and shall have been received into…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 10 — Alypius the bishop, a legate of the province of Numidia, said: Nor should this be passed over; if by chance any presbyter when corrected by his bishop, inflamed by self-conceit or pride, has thought fit to offer…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 11 — All the bishops said: If any presbyter shall have been corrected by his superior, he should ask the neighbouring bishops that his cause be heard by them and that through them he may be reconciled to his bishop: but…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 12 — Felix the bishop, said: I suggest, according to the statutes of the ancient councils, that if any bishop (which may God forbid!) shall have fallen under any accusation, and there shall have been too great necessity…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 13 — Bishop Aurelius said: What says your holiness on this matter? By all the bishops it was answered: The decrees of the ancients must be observed by us, to wit, that without the consent of the Primate of any province…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 14 — It also seemed good that one bishop from Tripoli, on account of the poverty of the province, should come as a legation, and that there a presbyter might be heard by five bishops, and a deacon by three, as has been…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 15 — Moreover it seemed good that if any bishop, presbyter, or deacon, who had a criminal charge brought against him or who had a civil cause, refused to be tried by the ecclesiastical tribunal, but wished to be judged by…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 16 — Likewise it seemed good that bishops, presbyters, and deacons should not be “conductors” or “procurators;” nor seek their food by any base and vile business, for they should remember how it is written, “No man…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 17 — It seemed good that Mauretania Sitiphensis, as it asked, should have a Primate of its own, with the consent of the Primate of Numidia from whose synod it had been separated. And with the consent of all the primates…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 18 — And that neither the Eucharist nor Baptism should be given to the bodies of the dead.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 19 — Aurelius, the bishop, said: Whatever bishop is accused the accuser shall bring the case before the primates of the province to which the accused belongs, and he shall not be suspended from communion by reason of the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 20 — But if presbyters or deacons shall have been accused, there shall be joined together from the neighbouring places with the bishop of the diocese, the legitimate number of colleagues, whom the accused shall seek from…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 21 — Likewise it seemed good that the sons of clergymen should not be joined in matrimony with gentiles and heretics.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 22 — And that to those who are not Catholic Christians, even if they be blood relations, neither bishops nor clergymen shall give anything at all by way of donation of their possessions.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 23 — Item, That bishops shall not go beyond seas without consulting the bishop of the primatial see of his own province: so that from him they may be able to receive a formed or commendatory letter.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 24 — Item, that besides the Canonical Scriptures nothing be read in church under the name of divine Scripture.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 25 — Aurelius, the bishop, said: We add, most dear brethren, moreover, since we have heard of the incontinency of certain clerics, even of readers, towards their wives, it seemed good that what had been enacted in divers…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 26 — Likewise it seemed good that no one should sell anything belonging to the Church: that if there was no revenue, and other great necessity urged thereto, this might be brought before the Metropolitan of the province…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 27 — It also was confirmed that if presbyters or deacons were convicted of any of the greater crimes on account of which it was necessary that they should be removed from the ministry, that hands should not be laid upon…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 28 — It also seemed good that presbyters, deacons, and others of the inferior clergy in the causes which they had, if they were dissatisfied with the judgments of their bishops, let the neighbouring bishops with the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 29 — Likewise it pleased the whole Council that he who shall have been excommunicated for any neglect, whether he be bishop, or any other cleric, and shall have presumed while still under sentence, and his cause not yet…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 30 — Likewise it seemed good that the accused, or the accusor, if (living in the same place as the accused) he fears some evil may be done him by the tumultuous multitude, may choose for himself a place near by, where the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 31 — It also seemed good that whoever of the clergy or of the deacons would not help the bishop in the necessities of the churches, when he wished to lift them to a higher position in his diocese, should no longer be…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 32 — It also seemed good that bishops, presbyters, deacons and any other of the clergy, who when they were ordained had no possessions, and in the time of their episcopate or after they became clerics, shall purchase in…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 33 — It also seemed good that presbyters should not sell the ecclesiastical property where they are settled without their bishop’s knowledge; and it is not lawful for bishops to sell the goods of the Church without the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 34 — Bishop Epigonius said: In this summary (Breviarium) which was adopted at the Synod of Hippo, we think nothing should be amended, nor anything added thereto except that the day on which the holy Feast of Easter falls…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 35 — That bishops or clerics should not easily let their children pass out of their power; unless they were secure of their morals and age, that their own sins may pertain to them.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 36 — None shall be ordained bishop, presbyters, or deacons before all the inmates of their houses shall have become Catholic Christians.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 37 — In the sacraments of the body and blood of the Lord nothing else shall be offered than that which the Lord himself ordained, that is to say, bread and wine mixed with water. But let the first-fruits, whether honey or…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 38 — Neither clerics nor those who profess continence should enter the houses of widows or virgins without the bidding or consent of the bishops or presbyters: and then let them not go alone, but with some other of the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 39 — That the bishop of the first see shall not be called Prince of the Priests or High Priest (Summus Sacerdos) or any other name of this kind, but only Bishop of the First See.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 40 — That the clergy are not to enter taverns for eating or drinking, nor unless compelled to do so by the necessity of their journey.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 41 — That the Sacraments of the Altar are not to be celebrated except by those who are fasting, except on the one anniversary of the celebration of the Lord’s Supper; for if the commemoration of some of the dead, whether…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 42 — That no bishops or clerics are to hold feasts in churches, unless perchance they are forced thereto by the necessity of hospitality as they pass by. The people, too, as far as possible, are to be prohibited from…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 43 — That to penitents the times of their penance shall be assigned by the will of the bishop according to the difference of their sins; and that a presbyter shall not reconcile a penitent without consulting the bishop,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 44 — That holy virgins when they are separated from their parents by whom they have been wont to be guarded, are to be commended by the care of the bishop, or presbyter where the bishop is absent, to women of graver age,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 45 — That the sick are to be baptized who cannot answer for themselves if their [servants] shall have spoken at their own proper peril a testimony of the good will [of the sick man].vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 46 — The passions of the Martyrs may be read when their anniversary days are celebrated.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 47 — Concerning the Donatists it seemed good that we should hold counsel with our brethren and fellow priests Siricius and Simplician concerning those infants alone who are baptized by Donatists: lest what they did not do…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 48 — But we suggest that we decree what was set forth by the wisdom of the plenary synod at Capua, that no rebaptisings, nor reordinations should take place, and that bishops should not be translated. For Cresconius,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 49 — Honoratus and Urban, the bishops, said: We have issued this command, that (because lately two of our brethren, bishops of Numidia, presumed to ordain a pontiff,) only by the concurrence of twelve bishops the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 50 — But this should be decreed, that when we shall have met together to choose a bishop, if any opposition shall arise, because such things have been treated by us, the three shall not presume to purge him who was to be…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 51 — Honoratus and Urban, the bishops, said: Since all things treated by our commonitory are known, we add also what has been ordered concerning the day of Easter, that we be informed of the date always by the Church of…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 52 — Honoratus and Urban, the bishops, said: This was commanded to us in word, that because it had been decreed in the Council of Hippo that each province should be visited in the time of the council, that ye also deign…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 53 — Epigonius, the bishop, said: In many councils it has been decreed by the sacerdotal assembly that such communities as are contained in other dioceses and ruled by their bishops, and which never had any bishops of…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 54 — Epigonius, the bishop, said: This has been decreed in many councils, also just now it has been confirmed by your prudence, most blessed brethren, that no bishop should receive a strange cleric into his diocese…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 55 — Aurelius, the bishop, said: My brethren, pray allow me to speak. It often happens that ecclesiastics who are in need seek deacons [præpositis in the Latin], or presbyters or bishops from me: and I, bearing in mind…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 56 — Honoratus and Urban, the bishops, said: We have heard that it has been decreed that dioceses should not be deemed fit to receive bishops, unless with the consent of their founder: but in our province since some have…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 57 — Since in the former council it was decreed, as your unanimity remembers as well as I do, that those who as children were baptized by the Donatists, and not yet being able to know the pernicious character of their…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 58 — Wherefore the most religious Emperors should be asked that they order the remaining idols to be taken entirely away throughout all Africa; for in many maritime places and in divers possessions the iniquity of this…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 59 — It should be petitioned also that they deign to decree, that if perchance any shall have been willing to plead their cause in any church according to the Apostolic law imposed upon the Churches, and it happens that…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 60 — This also must be sought, that (since contrary to the divine precepts feasts are held in many places, which have been induced by the heathen error, so that now Christians are forced to celebrate these by heathens,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 61 — Furthermore, it must be sought that theatrical spectacles and the exhibition of other plays be removed from the Lord’s day and the other most sacred days of the Christian religion, especially because on the octave…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 62 — And this should be sought, that they deign to decree that if any clergyman of whatever rank shall have been condemned by the judgment of the bishops for any crime, he may not be defended either by the churches over…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 63 — And of them also it must be sought that if anyone wishes to come to the grace of Christianity from any ludicrous art (ludicra arte) and to remain free of that stain, it be not lawful for anyone to induce him or…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 64 — Concerning the publishing of manumissions in church, if our fellow bishops throughout Italy shall be found to do this, it will be a mark of our confidence to follow their order [of proceedings], full power being…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 65 — Aurelius, the bishop, said: I do not think that the case of Equitius should be passed over in the legation, who some time ago for his crimes was condemned by an Episcopal sentence; that if by any chance our legate…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 66 — Then when all things had been considered and treated of which seem to conduce to the advantage of the church, the Spirit of God suggesting and admonishing us, we determined to act leniently and pacifically with the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 67 — Therefore it seemed good that letters should be given from our council to the African judges, from whom it would seem suitable that this should be sought, that in this matter they would aid the common mother, the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 68 — It moreover seemed good that letters be sent to our brethren and fellow-bishops, and especially to the Apostolic See, over which our aforesaid venerable brother and colleague Anastasius, presides, that [ἐπειδὴ in the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 69 — It further seemed good, that when these things were done, legates should be sent from our number to those of the Donatists whom they hold as bishops, or to the people, for the sake of preaching peace and unity,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 70 — Moreover since incontinence has been charged against some clergymen with regard to their own wives it has seemed good that bishops, presbyters, and deacons should according to the statutes already made abstain even…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 71 — Moreover it seemed good that no one should be allowed to leave his chief cathedral and go to another church built in the diocese, or to neglect the care and frequent attendance upon his own cathedral by reason of too…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 72 — Item, it seemed good that whenever there were not found reliable witnesses who could testify that without any doubt they were baptized and when the children themselves were not, on account of their tender age, able…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 73 — Item, it seemed good that the day of the venerable Easter should be intimated to all by the subscription of formed letters; and that the same should be observed with regard to the date of the Council, according to…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 74 — Item, it has been decreed that it is not lawful to any intercessor to retain the see to which he has been appointed as intercessor, by any popular movements and seditions; but let him take care that within a year he…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 75 — On account of the afflictions of the poor by whose troubles the Church is worn out without any intermission, it seemed good to all that the Emperors be asked to allow defenders for them against the power of the rich…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 76 — Item, it seemed good that as often as the council is to be assembled, the bishops who are impeded neither by age, sickness, or other grave necessity, come together, and that notice be given to the primates of their…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 77 — Concerning Cresconius of Villa Regis this seemed good to all, that the Primate of Numidia should be informed on this matter so that he should by his letters summon the aforementioned Cresconius in order that at the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 78 — It further seemed good that since the destitution of the Church of Hippo-Diarrhytus should no longer be neglected, and the churches there are retained by those who have declined the infamous communion of Equitius,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 79 — It was further decreed that as often as clergymen convicted and confessed of any crime either on account of eorum, quorum verecundiæ parcitur, or on account of the opprobrium to the Church, and of the insolent…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 80 — Item, it seemed good that if any bishop wished to advance to the clericature a monk received from a monastery not under his jurisdiction, or shall have appointed him superior of a monastery of his own, the bishop who…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 81 — Item, it was ordained that if any bishop should prefer to his Church strangers to blood relationship with him, or his heretical relatives, or pagans as his heirs, he shall be anathematized even after his death, and…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 82 — Item, it seemed good that the Emperor be petitioned with regard to announcing manumissions in church.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 83 — Item, it seemed good that the altars which have been set up here and there, in fields and by the wayside as Memories of Martyrs, in which no body nor reliques of martyrs can be proved to have been laid up, should be…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 84 — Item, it seemed good to petition the most glorious Emperors that the remains of idolatry not only in images, but in any places whatever or groves or trees, should altogether be taken away.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 85 — It was said by all the bishops: If any letters are to be composed in the name of the council it seemed good that the venerable bishop who presides over this See should vouchsafe to dictate and sign them in the name…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 86 — Valentine, the bishop, said: If your good patience will permit, I follow the things which were done in time past in the Church of Carthage, and which were illustrious having been confirmed by the subscriptions of the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 87 — In the case of Quodvultdeus of Centuria, it pleased all the bishops that no one should communicate with him until his cause should be brought to a conclusion, for his accuser when he sought to bring the cause before…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 88 — But in the case of Maximian of Vagai it seemed good that letters be sent from the council both to him and to his people; that he should vacate the bishoprick, and that they should request another to be appointed for…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 89 — It further seemed good that whoever thereafter should be ordained by the bishops throughout the African provinces, should receive from their ordainers letters, written in their own hands, containing the name of the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 90 — Item, it seemed good that whoever in church even once had read should not be admitted to the ministry (clericatum) by another church.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 91 — Aurelius, the bishop, said: What has come out in the handling of your charity, I think this should be confirmed by ecclesiastical acts. For the profession of all of you shews that each one of us should call together…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 92 — That bishop of that church said: What by the authority of that most ample see we shall have impetrated, we ask your gravity to have read, and that you order it to be joined to the acts and carried into effect. When…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 93 — The Commonitorium for our brothers Theasius and Evodius, sent as legates from the Council of Carthage to the most glorious and most religious princes. When by the help of the Lord they are come into the presence of…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 94 — That a free delegation be sent to the council from all the provinces to Mizoneum. Legates and letters were ordered to be sent for the purpose of directing the free legation: that became the unity had been made only…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 95 — It seemed good that there should be no more the yearly necessity of fatiguing the brethren; but as often as common cause, that is of the whole of Africa, demands, that letters shall be given on every side to that see…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 96 — If an appeal be taken, let him who makes it choose the judges, and with him he also against whom the appeal is taken; and from their decision no appeal may be made.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 97 — It seemed good that the legates who were about leaving, viz., Vincent and Fortunatian, should in the name of all the provinces ask from the most glorious Emperors to give a faculty for the establishment of scholastic…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 98 — It seemed good that such peoples as had never had bishops of their own should in no way receive such unless it had been decreed in a plenary council of each province and by the primates, and with the consent of the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 99 — Such communities as have returned from the Donatists and have had bishops, without doubt may continue to have them even without any action of the councils, but such a community as had a bishop and when he dies wish…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 100 — Johnson thus condenses and translates.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 101 — It seemed good that a letter be written to the holy Pope Innocent concerning the dissension between the Churches of Rome and Alexandria, so that each Church might keep peace with the other as the Lord commanded.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 102 — It seemed good that according to evangelical and apostolical discipline a man who had been put away from his wife, and a woman put away from her husband should not be married to another, but so should remain, or else…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 103 — This also seemed good, that the prayers which had been approved in synod should be used by all, whether prefaces, commendations, or laying on of the hand, and that others contrary to the faith should not be used by…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 104 — It seemed good that whoever should seek from the Emperor, that secular judges should take cognizance of his business, should be deprived of his office; if however, he had asked from the Emperor an episcopal trial, no…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 105 — Whoever does not communicate in Africa, and goes to communicate across seas, let him be cast out of the clergy.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 106 — It seemed good that whoever wished to go to court, should give notice in the form which is sent to the Church of the city of Rome, that from thence also he should receive a formed letter to court. But if receiving…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 107 — In the consulate of the most glorious Emperors Honorius for the VIIth time and Theodosius for the IIId, Augusti, xvii. Calends of July, a synod was held at Carthage in the basilica of the second region. In this…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 108 — In the consulate of the most glorious Emperors, Honorius for the XIIth time and Theodosius for the VIIIth, Augusti most exalted, on the Calends of May, at Carthage in the secretarium of the Basilica of Faustus. When…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 109 — That whosoever says that Adam, the first man, was created mortal, so that whether he had sinned or not, he would have died in body—that is, he would have gone forth of the body, not because his sin merited this, but…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 110 — Likewise it seemed good that whosoever denies that infants newly from their mother’s wombs should be baptized, or says that baptism is for remission of sins, but that they derive from Adam no original sin, which…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 111 — Likewise it seemed good, that whoever should say that the grace of God, by which a man is justified through Jesus Christ our Lord, avails only for the remission of past sins, and not for assistance against committing…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 112 — Also, whoever shall say that the same grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord helps us only in not sinning by revealing to us and opening to our understanding the commandments, so that we may know what to seek,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 113 — It seemed good that whosoever should say that the grace of justification was given to us only that we might be able more readily by grace to perform what we were ordered to do through our free will; as if though…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 114 — It also seemed good that as St. John the Apostle says, “If we shall say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us,” whosoever thinks that this should be so understood as to mean that out of…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 115 — It has seemed good that whoever should say that when in the Lord’s prayer, the saints say, “forgive us our trespasses,” they say this not for themselves, because they have no need of this petition, but for the rest…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 116 — Likewise also it seemed good, that whoever wished that these words of the Lord’s prayer, when we say, “Forgive us our trespasses” are said by the saints out of humility and not in truth let them be anathema. For who…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 117 — Item, it seemed good, since it was so decreed some years ago by a plenary council, that whatever churches were erected in a diocese before the laws were made concerning Donatists when they became Catholic, should…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 118 — So, too, it has seemed good that if a bishop has been converted from the Donatists to Catholic unity, that equally there should be divided what shall have been so found where there were two parties; that is, that…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 119 — Item, it seemed good that if anyone after the laws should convert any place to Catholic unity and retain it for three years without opposition, it should not be taken away from him afterwards. If however there was…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 120 — Item, it seemed good that whatever bishops seek the peoples whom they consider to pertain to their see, not by bringing their causes before the episcopal judges, but rush in while another is holding the place, all…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 121 — Item, it seemed good that whoever neglect to bring the places belonging to their see into Catholic unity should be admonished by the neighbouring diligent bishops, that they delay no longer to do this; but if within…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 122 — From the judges chosen by common consent of the parties, no appeal can be taken; and whoever shall be found to have carried such an appeal and contumaciously to be unwilling to submit to the judges, when this has…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 123 — If in the mother cathedrals a bishop should have been negligent against the heretics, let a meeting be held of the neighbouring diligent bishops, and let his negligence be pointed out to him, so that he can have no…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 124 — If it shall be proven that any bishop has lied concerning the communion of those [who had been Donatists], and had said that they had communicated when he knew it was an established fact that they had not done so,…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 125 — Item, it seemed good that presbyters, deacons, or other of the lower clergy who are to be tried, if they question the decision of their bishops, the neighbouring bishops having been invited by them with the consent…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 126 — Item, it seemed good that whatever bishop, by the necessity of the dangers of virginal purity, when either a powerful suitor or some ravisher is feared, or if she shall be pricked with some scruple of death that she…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 127 — Item, it seemed good, lest all the bishops who are assembled at a council be kept too long, that the whole synod should choose three judges of the several provinces; and they elected for the province of Carthage…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 128 — It seemed good to all, as it had been decreed by the former councils, concerning what persons were to be admitted to bring accusations against clerics; and since it had not been expressed what persons should not be…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 129 — To all it seemed good that no slaves or freedmen, properly so called, be admitted to accusation nor any of those who by the public laws are debarred from bringing accusation in criminal proceedings. This also is the…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 130 — So, too, it seemed good that as often as many crimes were laid to clerics by their accusers, and one of the first examined could not be proved, they should not be allowed to go on giving evidence on the other counts.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 131 — They who are forbidden to be admitted as accusers are not to be allowed to appear as witnesses, nor any that the accuser may bring from his own household. And none shall be admitted to give witness under fourteen…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 132 — It also seemed good that if on any occasion a bishop said that someone had confessed to him alone a personal crime, and that the man now denies it; let not the bishop think that any slight is laid upon him if he is…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 133 — As long as his own bishop will not communicate with one excommunicated, the other bishops should have no communion with that bishop, that the bishop may be more careful not to charge anyone with what he cannot prove…vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 134 — To the most blessed lord, and our honourable brother Boniface, Aurelius, Valentine of the primatial See of Numidia, and others present with us to the number of 217 from the whole council in Africa.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 135 — To the most honourable lords, our holy brethren and fellow bishops, Aurelius, Valentinus, as well as to the whole holy synod met in Carthage, Cyril salutes your holiness in God.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 136 — To our holy lords, and rightly most blessed brethren and fellow bishops, Aurelius, Valentine, and to the other beloved ones met together in the Synod held at Carthage, Atticus the bishop.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 137 — We believe in one God etc.…the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes them.vatican.va
• Council of Carthage, Canon 138 — To the lord and most beloved and our honourable brother Celestine, Aurelius, Palatinus, Antony, Totus, Servusdei, Terentius, Fortunatus, Martin, Januarius, Optatus, Ceticius, Donatus, Theasius, Vincent, Fortunatian,…vatican.va

Editor's excursus

• Council of Carthage, Introduction — (Labbe and Cossart: Concilia, Tom. II. Col. 1041; Dionysius Ex., Codex Can. Eccles.[Migne, Pat. Lat., Tom. LXVII.]; Beveridge, Synodicon in loc.)vatican.va