October 692 A.D. Council of Trullo
October 692 A.D. Council of Trullo
Shahan, Thomas. "Council in Trullo." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04311b.htm. Accessed 23 Sept 2014.
Shahan, Thomas. "Council in Trullo." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04311b.htm. Accessed 23 Sept 2014.
Council in
Trullo
This
particular council of Constantinople, held in 692 under Justinian II, is
generally known as the Council in Trullo, because it was held in
the same domed hall where the Sixth General Council had met (see above). Both the Fifth and
the Sixth General Councils had omitted to draw up disciplinary canons, and as
this council was intended to complete both in this respect, it also took the
name of Quinisext (Concilium Quinisextum, Eunodos penthekte), i.e. Fifth-Sixth. It
was attended by 215 bishops, all Orientals. Basil of Gortyna in Illyria, however, belonged to
the Roman patriarchate and called himself papal legate, though no evidence is
extant of his right to use a title that in the East served to clothe the
decrees with Roman authority. In fact, the West never recognized the 102
disciplinary canons of this council, in large measure reaffirmations of earlier
canons. Most of the new canons exhibit an inimical attitude towards Churches
not in disciplinary accord with Constantinople, especially the Western Churches. Their customs are anathematized and "every little
detail of difference is remembered to be condemned" (Fortescue). Canon iii
of Constantinople (381) and canon xxviii of Chalcedon (451) are renewed, the heresy of Honorius is again
condemned (can. i), and marriage with a heretic is invalid because Rome says it is merely
unlawful; Rome had recognized fifty of the Apostolic Canons, therefore the other
thirty-five obtain recognition from this council, and as inspired teaching (see
APOSTOLIC CANONS).
In the
matter of celibacy the Greek prelates are not content to let the Roman Church follow its own
discipline, but insist on making a rule (for the whole Church) that all clerics except bishops may continue in wedlock,
while they excommunicate anyone who tries to separate a priest or deacon from his wife, and any
cleric who leaves his wife because he is ordained (can. iii, vi, xii, xiii, xlviii).
The Eastern
Orthodox churches holds this council an ecumenical one, and adds its canons to
the decrees of the Fifth and Sixth Councils. in the West St. Bede calls it (De sexta mundi
aetate) a "reprobate" synod, and Paul the Deacon (Hist. Lang., VI, p. 11) an "erratic"
one. Dr. Fortescue rightly says (op. cit. below, p. 96) that intolerance of all
other customs with the wish to make the whole Christian world conform to its own local
practices has always been and still is a characteristic note of the Byzantine Church. For the attitude of the
popes, substantially identical, in face of the various attempts to
obtain their approval of these canons, see Hefele, "Conciliengesch."
(III, 345-48).
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