Quinisext Council
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The Quinisext Council (
Decisions
Many of the council's
Ban on pre-Christian practices
The Council banned certain festivals and practices which were thought to have a Pagan origin. Therefore, the Council gives some insight to historians about pre-Christian religious practices.
Ritual observance
Many of the council's canons were aimed at settling differences in ritual observance and clerical discipline in different parts of Christendom. Being held under Byzantine auspices, with an exclusively Eastern clergy, these overwhelmingly took the practice of the Church of Constantinople as orthodox.[2]
Armenian practices
The council explicitly condemned some customs of Armenian Christians; among them using wine unmixed with water for the Eucharist (canon 32), choosing children of clergy for appointment as clergy (canon 33), and eating eggs and cheese on Saturdays and Sundays of Lent (canon 56). And the council proclaimed deposition for clergy and excommunication for laypeople who contravened the canons prohibiting these practices.[5]
Roman practices
Likewise, it reprobated, with similar penalties, the
Eucharist, liturgy, evangelising, baptism
Grapes, milk and honey were not to be offered at the altar. Whoever came to receive the Eucharist should receive in the hand by holding his hands in the form of a cross. The Eucharist was not allowed to be given to dead bodies. During the liturgy the psalms were to be sung in modest and dulcet tones, and the phrase 'who was crucified for us' was not to be added to the Trisagion. Prelates were to preach the gospel as propounded by the fathers. Priests received special instructions on how to deal with those who were not baptized and they were also given rubrics to follow on how to admit heretics to the faith.[5]
Moral guidelines for clerics and laity
In addition to these, the council also condemned clerics that had improper or illicit relations with women. It condemned simony and the charging of fees for administering the Eucharist. It enjoined those in holy orders from entering public houses, engaging in usurious practices, attending horse races in the
Acceptance
The Quinisext canons found their way into Byzantine
See also
- Pentarchy
- First seven Ecumenical Councils
References
- ^ a b "CHURCH FATHERS: Council in Trullo (A.D. 692)". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ ISBN 0-8135-0599-2.
- ISBN 9780195187922. Retrieved Nov 17, 2021.
- ^ a b Canon 71
- ^ a b c d Andrew Ekonomou. Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes. Lexington Books, 2007
- ^ Richard Price, The Canons of the Quinisext Council, Liverpool 2020, 34-54.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Council in Trullo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Further reading
- Collins, Roger. The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710–97. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1989. ISBN 0-631-15923-1.
- Nedungatt, George: The council of Trullo revisited: Ecumenism and the canon of the councils, dans Theological Studies, Vol.71, September 2010, pp. 651–676.
- Ohme, Heinz (1990). Das Concilium Quinisextum und seine Bischofsliste: Studien zum Konstantinopeler Konzil von 692. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110863321.
- Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
- Concilium Constantinopolitanum a. 691/2 in Trullo habitum. H. Ohme (ed.) Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum, Series Secunda II: Concilium Universale Constantinopolitanum Tertium, Pars 4. ISBN 978-3-11-030853-2. Berlin/Boston Oktober 2013.