Zenodatus of Proclus, his delights, 346 a. Successor, 127 a. Zenonis, wife of Basiliscus, 56 a. Zephyrinus, bishop of Rome, 12 a. Zeta, surname of Satyrus, 151 b. Zetes, son of Boreas, 531 a. Zeus Apatourios, 138 b. Zeuxippus, bath of, 475 b. Zeuxis, fugitive, 385 b. Zeuxis, painter, 369 b. Zipetes, king of Bithynia, 226 a; 228. Zoanambes, lays snares for Baramus, 29 b. Zodiac, 210 b; 440 a. Zoilus, bishop of Alexandria, 287 a. Zooras, 5 a. Zopyrus, killed by the Babylonians, 39 a. Zopyrus, son of Megabyzus, 40 b. Zosimus, comes, wrote a historical code, 98. Or rather, he transcribed Eunapius, 84 b. Zosimus of Panopolis, alchemist, 117 a. Zurvan, 63 b. Zygitis, 144 b.
II. ANALYTICAL INDEX OF NOTABLE THINGS FOUND IN THE SYNTAGMA
*The reader is referred to the bolder numbers inserted into the Latin text.*A Abbot, distinguished by the presbyterate, ordains a monk as reader, 133. Abortions, penalties for, 429, 432. Age for ordaining a presbyter, thirty years; subdeacons and deacons, twenty-five; deaconesses, forty, 49, 95, 96. Age, however, in the new laws: bishop, thirty-five years; reader (corrector from 'x' for 'n'), twenty; deaconesses between forty and sixty, 96. African prelates, living with their wives is reproved, 64, 65. Agapae and symposia in sacred buildings are forbidden, 168, 169. To partake of agapae is forbidden to clerics, ibid. Lamb (Agnus), figure of Christ in ancient images, 12. Alexandrian clerics did not subscribe to the epistle of Leo PP. to Flavian, 225. Anabaptism forbidden, 86. Penalty for anabaptism, 161. Apostates and magical arts, penalties for, 442, seqq. Item 456. Clerics appealing or contending before public tribunals shall be deposed, 203. Appeals to the Roman see, 26, 27. Armenian rite of those consecrating with pure wine is refuted, 137, 138. Armenian custom of choosing priests by succession of lineage, and of promoting those not yet tonsured, is reproved, 39. Armenian rite, nearly Judaic, of offering the meat of slaughtered animals to priests, is criticized, 171. Armenian custom of eating eggs and cheese during fasts is forbidden, 175. Those petitioning the royal court must explain the cause of their journey to the Primate of Carthage and the Roman pontiff, 204, 206. Avarice: vituperation, from Gregory of Nyssa, 463, seqq.
B Baptismal rules, 1, 153, 166. Who should be rebaptized, 22. One admitted to baptism is punished unless he also offers his wife, children, and household for baptism, 49. Baptism is not to be performed in a private oratory, but in a public church, 146. Baptism that is doubtful is to be renewed without any difficulty, 156, 157. Children baptized by the Donatists were received into the Catholic clergy, 489, seqq. One baptized during an illness is not to be promoted to the presbyterate, 52. Bathing of mixed sexes is forbidden, 312. Biblical questions are not to be solved except according to the opinion of the Fathers, 182, 215. Bigamist, or one who has had a concubine, may not attain any ecclesiastical grade. Item: one who has married a widow, or a repudiated woman, or a harlot, or a servant, or an actress, or two sisters, or a niece, 62, 64, 65, 94, 302. A bigamist after baptism is not admitted into the clerical order, 302. Item: he who married a niece (corr. from 'adolphidēn'), ibid. The same crime is not punished twice, 279.
Bona ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical goods), may they be a consolation for widows, the poor, and guests, 340. If presbyters have distracted any ecclesiastical incomes while the episcopal see was vacant, they are to be recalled to the jurisdiction of the church, 340, 345. Sale of church goods is forbidden, 341, 342.
C Games at the festivals of the Calends, midwinter, public vows, bacchanals, etc., are forbidden, 461, 462. Let no one be allowed to sing in churches except liturgical chanters, 130. Canonical books alone are to be read in churches, 131. Canon of sacred books, 129, 131. Confirmation of ancient canons, 7, 11. Chant in churches should not be too clamorous, but pious and religious, 133. Those abstaining from meats due to superstition are punished, 274. It was permitted for the Carthaginian bishop to ordain even an external cleric as bishop for any church, 37, 38. Any catechumen dying is to be baptized, 159. How the Cathari were received into the Church, 59. It is not permitted for a cleric to exercise the trade of an innkeeper, 276. Dance at weddings is forbidden, 465. Chorepiscopi are made in imitation of the seventy disciples and take care of the poor, 98. Chorepiscopi are ordered not to ordain presbyters or deacons, but only readers, subdeacons, and exorcists, 97, 133. It is forbidden for chorepiscopi to ordain ministers without the consent of the bishop, 41, 97. A chorepiscopus is created by the bishop of the city, to whom he himself is subject, 97. Chrism is not to be made by presbyters, 160, 322. Constitutions of Clement are interpolated, 8. Rules of clerical modesty from the Constantinopolitan canon, 63, 64. Clerics should abstain from women, usury, and procurements, 95, 213, 214, 216, 217, 218. Clerics promoted while criminal are to be deposed, 93, 94. Clerics of any condition or office are subject to bishops, 438. Clerics shall use ecclesiastical attire both in the city and while traveling; and let them not walk about in splendid silk or multicolored clothing, 142, 143. Clerics and monks who are vagabonds are to be expelled from the imperial metropolis or any other significant city, 194, 195. Clerics may act even in domestic oratories by the judgment of the bishop, 147. Clerics shall not enter taverns, 100. Clerics shall not practice magic and arts of this kind, 260. Clerics, monks, and laymen are subject to bishops, 102. Clerics shall do nothing against the judgment of the bishop, 214. Rustic clerics, when a bishop or urban clerics are present in the city, shall not perform the sacred rite, 97. Food is due to poor clerics, 207. Modesty of clerics and monks toward women, 222, 224.
A Cleric: no one should defend one who is condemned, 249. A cleric who receives an excommunicated person into another church incurs excommunication, 205, 207. A cleric struck by an angry bishop’s sentence may flee to the metropolitan, 251. A cleric convicted by two or three witnesses of a bestial sin is deposed, 52. A foreign cleric should not be accepted by another without his own bishop’s permission, 90, 92. A cleric should not drag another cleric to secular tribunals, 232. A cleric should not dispute with a bishop except at a synod, 233; with a metropolitan, before a patriarch, ibid. A cleric who is a murderer is deposed, 272. A cleric who eats in a tavern, or reviles a presbyter or deacon, or mocks the lame, deaf, or blind, is excommunicated, 265. A cleric should not minister in two churches, 60, 88. A cleric should not be ordained if his wife has been an adulteress, 100. A cleric should not participate in second or illicit marriages, 224. The number of clergy varies according to custom, 100. No one is made a cleric unless assigned to a particular church, 101. No cleric may celebrate the liturgy anywhere without letters of commendation, 206. A cleric praying with a deposed cleric is deposed himself, 270. Any cleric deposed for a manifest crime who dares to touch the liturgy is to be utterly cut off from ecclesiastical communion, 277. A sinful cleric should not give a blessing, 94. A cleric who refuses to be promoted by a bishop is deposed, 55. A cleric who refuses ecclesiastical judgment and wins his case before secular judges is nonetheless deposed from his rank, 235. A cleric who does not gather at church for three consecutive Sundays is deposed; a layman is excommunicated, 144. Save, however, for what is stated, 195. A cleric traveling without a canonical letter, or without the bishop’s order, is not to be received by any church, nor allowed to perform the liturgy, 194. A cleric who makes a wager is deposed, 315. A cleric must dismiss an adulterous wife or not minister, 401. A cleric or layman who prays in a Jewish synagogue or one of heretics is deposed and excommunicated, 266. The rite of communicating, 137. It is required that both clerics and laymen take part in the sacred liturgy, unless they are excused for a reasonable cause for a time, 145. Communion with heretics or Jews is forbidden, 393, sqq.; 436, 437. Confession of sins to a priest is asserted by St. Peter of Alexandria, 465. The crime of conspiracy and sect is punished by deposition, 275, 319. The Church of Constantinople admitted even foreign clerics, 93. The fixed number of the Constantinople clergy, 100. The increased honor of the bishops of Constantinople, 25, 28, 29, 191. From it the others were ordained, as were the metropolitans of Pontus, Asia, and Thrace, 26. Various degrees of clerical continence, 283–286. Veneration of the Cross, 7. It is forbidden to depict the form of the Cross on pavements, ibid. The distinguished privilege of the bishop of Cyprus, 28-29.
D Those who feign demon-possession are punished, 468. Extreme viaticum should not be denied to a dying excommunicated person, 260. The causes for which bishops or presbyters are deposed, 270-277. Bishops or clerics who are deserters of their own churches are disapproved, 193, 196, 197. Contempt for or violation of sacred things is struck with anathema, 167, 168.
1526 Deacons in a large city should not be more than seven, 98. Deacons should not give the Eucharist to presbyters, nor receive before the bishop or presbyters, nor sit among the presbyters, 134, 135. Deaconesses were not made by the laying on of hands; rather, they were considered within the lay order, 104. What the office of the first seven deacons was, according to John Chrysostom, 99. A deacon committing fornication is deposed, 305. A deacon should not sit without the order of a presbyter or before him, unless perhaps he holds a position outside the diocese of a patriarch or metropolitan, 229. A diocese, against the will of its bishop, should not be subdivided, nor receive another bishop, 186, 196. Especially on Sundays the clergy and people should be taught by the prelates, 182. It is not permitted for a bishop or cleric to celebrate the offering in a private house, 147. Sacred gifts should be inviolate and irrevocable, 118, sqq. It is forbidden for a man to sleep in a women’s monastery, and conversely for a woman in a men’s, 368, 371.
E The revenues of a widowed church should be conserved by its steward, 48. It is not permitted to have a church privately, 146. Heathens or heretics should not retain the goods of churches, 213. Sacred elections should not take place in the presence of many auditors, 128. Elections of priests are least of all to be permitted to the people or magistrates, 46. A demoniac at the point of death is baptized, 166. A demoniac is not made a cleric, nor admitted to the communion of prayers, 54. He may sometimes communicate, 146. The decrees of the Ephesine synod are held as valid, 403. The dignity of the episcopate frees one from servitude, 103. Resignation from the episcopate is not laudable, 33. The patrimonial assets of bishops should be kept distinct from their official revenues (*mensalia*), 337. If bishops appointed are not received by the people, what is to be done with them? 193. The condemnation of a bishop should take place by the suffrage of all the bishops of the province, 269. It is written at length on how bishops and clerics are to be judged or punished, 230, sqq. Whatever bishops and presbyters acquire after their ordination (except for personal gifts or inheritances) passes into the right of the Church, 342, 343. Bishops should not ordain in another’s diocese, 97, 271. What doctrine a bishop to be ordained should possess, 11. Bishops should pray before the prince for the condemned, 202. A bishop is not allowed to be absent from his church for long, 144. The see should not be given to an interrogator (*interventor*) bishop, 196. A cleric cursing a bishop is deposed, 273. Access of bishops to the royal court is rendered rare and difficult, 197, sqq. The punishment of bishops yearning for a foreign diocese, 57. The sons of bishops and clerics should not be rashly emancipated, 213. Nor should they give or attend spectacles, 235. The translation or transmigration of bishops and clerics is forbidden, 86-93. Bishops’ travels are circumscribed by severe rules, 192. The rights of bishops should remain intact even during barbarian incursions, 39, 40, 190, 191. Ancient elections and ordinations of bishops, 23, 30, 35, 36, 46, 47, 48. The authority of each is restricted to its own diocese, 24 sqq. Twelve bishops should judge a bishop, 234. A bishop or cleric should not make a heretic his heir or legatee, 345. A bishop should administer the *mensalia* goods through the clergy, 338. A bishop should not desert his cathedral seat so as to habitat in another location, even within the diocese, 196. A bishop does not attribute the revenues of the Church to his own relatives,
A 239.
A bishop-elect, if he refuses his ministry, is separated until he complies, 56, 57. But if the people do not receive him, he remains a bishop, but the clergy of that city, as being guilty of the tumults, shall lack communion, 57. A man may be made bishop who has lost an eye or is lame, but by no means one who is deaf or blind, 53. A bishop must be ordained within a period of three months by the metropolitan, 48. If the people delay the election for more than six months, the ordination is to be performed by him whose duty it is, 49. The bishop of a place shall scrutinize the cases of a visiting bishop, 199, 200. A bishop promoted by the favor of a magistrate is deposed, and separated along with all who communicate with him, 62. A bishop is to take care of monasteries, 261. A bishop is not to be made unless he has passed through the preceding degrees of orders, 50, 51, 52. No bishop shall betake himself to transmarine parts without a letter of dismissal from his primate, 189, 196. A bishop should not be a witness and a judge at the same time, 282. A bishop is not to be appointed where a bishop is still living, 40. A bishop neglecting his office is to be corrected by neighboring bishops, 212, 213, 253, or punished, 215. There was no bishop of several cities at once, except the Tomitan and the Isauropolitan, 61. A bishop of a small town is not to be made, 58. A bishop who has been absent from his diocese for six months without a legitimate cause, and has not performed his ministry, is deposed, 40, 41. A bishop who has rashly excommunicated someone shall not be held in communion by other bishops in the meantime, until he repents of his rashness, 267. A bishop obtruded without the authority of a synod and the metropolitan is ejected, 53. A bishop shall not appoint a successor for himself, 58. A bishop or cleric shall not approach the royal court without the permission of the provincial bishops or the metropolitan, 201. A bishop or presbyter who neglects his clergy or people, and does not instruct them in piety, shall be separated; if he persists in his negligence, he shall be deposed, 265. He who administers the Eucharist shall demand nothing, 296. Voluntary eunuchs are excluded from the priesthood and are afflicted with other penalties, 287. An involuntary eunuch can become a bishop; a voluntary one cannot even be a cleric, 53, 54. Civil penalties for those who castrate themselves, 54. An excommunicated person, if he behaves as if he were not excommunicated, condemns himself, 249. Only those offered by the bishop are exorcised, 154.
Those who compose, read, or explain to others infamous pamphlets were punished with death by civil law, 318. Festival games are forbidden, 461, 462. The Nicene, Constantinopolitan, Chalcedonian, Ephesine, and Carthaginian Faith, 1, 6. Care for children is not to be neglected for the sake of the study of the ascetic life, 378. Ecclesiastical and civil penalties for fornication and filthiness of this kind, 421, seqq. Fornication, sexual misconduct, sacrilege, perjury, and theft are punished by deposition, 270, 276. Ecclesiastical penalties for various thefts, 463.
Genuflections are forbidden at Pentecost, 181. And on the Lord's days, 183, 184.
An enumeration of some heretical sects, 380, 382. Item, 387, seqq. Which heretics are to be rebaptized upon coming to the Catholic faith, and which not, 162, seqq. How heretics converted to orthodoxy are to be treated, 398, seqq. Heretics do not receive inheritances, 349, seqq. Item, 404. Heretics, the excommunicated, infants, slaves, freedmen, and Jews do not have standing for an accusation against bishops, 231, 237. No oblation is to be made in the presence of a heretic, 151. Neither baptism nor oblation may be received from the hand of heretics, 148. The books of heretics are forbidden, with assigned penalties, 384, 386. The names of ancient heretics, 4, 5, 6, 21. Heirs are to be compelled to fulfill pious legacies. Also various civil constitutions concerning the same legacies, 107, 118. Ecclesiastical penalty for homicide, 476, seqq. No guest is to be received without letters of peace, 205.
Idols and temples are to be destroyed, 386. Penalties for those sacrificing to idols, 135, 280. What nocturnal illusions or intercourse may impede, 151, 153.
Fasting was observed at Rome even on the Saturdays of Lent, 175. It is not fitting for the sick to fast, 177. Fasting men should perform sacred rites and partake, 136, 174. Rules for fasts, 173, 177. Fasting on Saturday and Sunday is forbidden, 173. It is not permitted to make use of the unleavened bread, medicine, familiarity, or baths of the Jews, 276. A layman who engages in the fasts, feasts, or rites of the Jews is excommunicated; if a cleric, he is deposed, 266. Jews are only to be admitted to baptism with caution, 165. A debt-ridden Jew is not received into Christianity unless previously he has dissolved his debt, according to imperial novels, 158. If judges appointed for an accused bishop disagree among themselves, others are to be called in, 250. No one shall hold in contempt judges who have been appointed, 249. Those who have bound themselves by oath that they will never receive ordination are not to be compelled to take it, 55. Rules for those taking oaths, and penalties for those who perjure themselves, 438, seqq. Pagan swearing is forbidden, 441. The bishop of the new Justinianopolis was primate of all the Hellespont, 29.
Laymen shall not adhere to schismatic presbyters, 438. A layman striking a bishop or handing him over to prison shall be anathema, 317. A layman shall not communicate by himself in the presence of any sacred minister, 139. A layman shall not publicly dispute or teach about dogma, 474. A layman who dismisses his wife and marries another, or one dismissed by another, is excommunicated, 265. Penalties for the lapsed, 438, 444, 455. The lapsed are to be treated with mercy according to the different degree of their fault, 282, 283, 320. Sacred readings are to be interspersed with psalms, 130. Readers and psalters shall not wear an orarium while they sing, 130. Readers shall not greet the people, 213. Wives were permitted to readers and cantors, but only orthodox ones. However, it was not permitted to give their daughters in marriage to heretics, Jews, or pagans, unless they promised to become Catholics, 303. Civil laws against magicians, sorcerers, and harmful and satanic arts of this kind, 288, 292. Civil laws concerning various thefts, 299, 300. Civil laws concerning monastic matters, 354, 358 and 360, seqq. Civil laws are often unjust in divorce cases, 419. Various civil laws concerning ecclesiastical judgments, 238, 246, 292. Clerics practicing pimping are deposed; laymen are excommunicated, 277. Liberty seems to be given to those taking refuge in a church, 189. Sacred books are not to be allowed to perish through neglect or corruption. Those who act otherwise shall be excommunicated, 123. The difference between letters of peace and letters of commendation; the former were given to the poor and those needing aid, the latter to clerics, 208. The liturgy for the Nones and Vespers shall be the same, 130. The liturgy is performed according to the prescription of the synod, 132.
Liturgical order in churches, 128. The entire liturgy must be heard, otherwise one incurs censures, 264. Games partially forbidden and partially allowed by civil law, 467 seqq.
M Those lacking the imposition of the episcopal hand must neither make the tonsure for themselves nor read in church, 133. False martyrologies shall be burned, 132. False tombs of martyrs should be prudently removed by bishops, 105. Martyrs’ birthdays should not be celebrated in Lent, but mention of them should be made on Saturdays and Sundays, 174. The passions of the martyrs should be read on their annual feast days, 472. Honey and milk should not be offered at the altars, 139. If metropoleis are increased in number civilly, metropolitans should not on that account be increased, 60. Conversely, however, 191. There should not be two metropolitans in the same province, 60. Conversely, however, 61. It is not permitted for a metropolitan to claim for himself the monthly revenues of a deceased bishop, but they shall be preserved by the presbyters for the future bishop, 340. Military service and worldly dignities are forbidden to clerics and monks under penalty of deposition and excommunication, 273, 278. A minister of the temple must not touch the sacred vessels, nor wear an orarion, nor bless the bread or the chalice, nor leave the door, 142. Nuns must not go out of the house without grave necessity, 364. A nun to be professed must not be adorned with pompous dress, 375. It is permitted for anyone, even a sinner, to undertake the monastic life, 360. Penalty for a feigned monastic life, 377, 378. Ambitious monks and deserters of monasteries shall be coerced by bishops, 107. Monks with their monasteries should be subject to the bishop and behave quietly, 362. The age for making men and women monks, 375. Expelled monks are not seen as fit to be admitted to the clerical state, 377. The transfer of monks to another monastery is forbidden, 359. The wandering life of hermit monks is forbidden, 363, 365, 366. An abbot should bring back fugitive monks to the monastery, 365. A monk caught in a tavern is punished, 316. A monk should own nothing of his own, 353. Monasteries must not be public inns, 352, 354. A double monastery, that is, one for men and women together, is forbidden, 371. One about to die, even if the time of penance is not completed, is provided with the sacred viaticum. But if he happens to recover, he shall complete the penance, 478. Penalty for voluntary death, 153. Neither baptism nor the Eucharist should be given to the dead, 149, 150. Women must not preach during the liturgy, 141. Menstruating women must not receive communion, 150, 151. Women who have vowed virginity while in heresy, if they become Catholics, are absolved from the vow, 158. Self-mutilation is forbidden, 454.
N A cleric who denies Christ is cast out; one who denies being a cleric is deposed, 272. Marriage with two sisters, or with two brothers, is forbidden, 12 seqq. Marriage with heretics is forbidden, 396 seqq. Fourth marriages were once forbidden, 406. Contra, 278. What is to be done in the case of repeated marriages when the death of the spouse is uncertain? 414, 415. Marriage without the consent of parents or masters is forbidden, 429. Regarding the dissolution of marriage, 416 seqq. Ecclesiastical and civil rules regarding marriage, 405 seqq. Rules for repeated marriages, 405 seqq. If anyone should criticize the Church for allowing fourth marriages for the sake of peace, let him be anathema, 278.
O Material for the sacred oblation, 134, 136. Rules for oblations, also abuses, superstitions, etc., 170, 173. An oikonomos should be appointed in every episcopal church and in monasteries, 335. It is not permitted to pray at home with excommunicated persons, heretics, Jews, or schismatics, 148, 149. Private chapels, and their liturgy, should be under the power of the bishop, 125. Laws for a domestic chapel, 147-148. The repetition of ordination is punished by deposition, 272. The repetition of ordinations is forbidden, 86. No one should be ordained bishop, presbyter, or deacon before he has made all his relatives Christians, 49.
P If anyone does not receive a penitent, let him be deposed, 271. Penitents who have returned again to worldly life are punished with censures, 259. The image and rules of ancient penance, 320-334. Paschal holidays and their privileges, 176. The entire Paschal week is festive, 182. Rules for the Paschal solemnity, 177-184. Thirty years' possession acquires a parish, 190. The order of patriarchal sees established in the Trullan canon, 28. A patriarch, or metropolitan, or primate, used to exist in each nation, 22 seqq. and 28. Paulianists were rebaptized, 103. Episcopal defenders of the poor, 190. The penalty for brutish sin, 404. A stubborn sinner is forbidden from the sacred synaxis, 474. It is not permitted for any clerics to strike the faithful or infidels for the sake of correction, 270. Periodeutae acted for bishops in small towns, 58. The canons of Peter of Alexandria regarding the lapsed, 444 seqq. Also those of Gregory of Nyssa, 457. St. Peter of Alexandria testifies to the crucifixion of the apostle Peter in Rome, 450. Those wearing amulets are excommunicated, 260. Various penalties for sinners, 305-308. Polygamy is detestable, 412. Presbyteresses shall not be appointed in the Church, 104. A presbyter is judged by six bishops, a deacon by three, whom they prefer; but minor clerics [are judged] by their own bishop only, 236, 237. Presbyters shall not make chrism, nor restore anyone to sacred ministry, nor consecrate virgins, temples, or other places, 105. Presbyters who have sacrificed to idols, and then repented, retain their rank but do not minister, 135. A presbyter should not sit before the bishop has arrived and taken his seat, 226. A presbyter who marries is moved from his rank, a fornicator is entirely cast out and subjected to penance, 267. Psalms composed by private authority are not to be recited in churches, 130. If anyone publishes pseudoepigraphical books of the impious in church, let him be deposed, 128. Various rules of clerical purity, as much canonical as civil, 305-308. Should children baptized by the Donatists be excluded from the altar? 136.
Q During the Lenten season no weddings are performed, nor are birthdays celebrated, 174. During the Lenten season no oblation of the sacred bread occurs except on Saturdays and Sundays, but only the presanctified are offered, 135, 174.
R Penalties for those who abduct women, 423-424. Abducted girls are to be returned to their fiancés, 308. Penalty for abductors, 308, 312. Abductors of women are deposed if they are clerics; excommunicated if they are laymen, 275.
ANALYTICAL INDICES
Ecclesiastical rule concerning monks, 362 ff. Ecclesiastical rule concerning holy virgins, 370. A person condemned by the sentence of his own bishop is not to be received by another bishop, 248. The Roman Church enjoins continence, from the rank of deacon and upwards, 285. The Carthaginian Church enjoins it also from the subdiaconate. The Roman Church maintains the supreme rigor of priestly chastity, 63.
S
On the Sabbath and the Lord's Day, the Gospels were read with other Scriptures, 134, 181. That one ought not to judaize on the Sabbath, 181. Chapels that lack the relics of martyrs are to be abolished, 106. What sort of priests ought to be elected, that is, concerning their examination, 42, 44, 45. No one is to shun the liturgy of a priest who is married, 140. An ancient canon commanded abstinence from the eating of blood, 283. The disgrace of actors and mimes, penance and penalties, 458 ff. Schismatics acting against their own bishop are to be punished, 124, 26. Likewise a bishop or anyone else separating himself from a metropolitan or patriarch, 127. Servants who have become monks with the consent of their masters are freed. If, however, they subsequently pass to another state, they are recalled to servitude, 313, 314. Servants are not to be received into the clerical or monastic state against the will of their masters, 261, 359, 360. A servant only became a cleric after freedom had been granted to him, 103. The crime of simony, whether in ordinations or otherwise, is avenged with the most severe penalties, 65, 137. Spectacles are not to be held on feast days, nor during the entire paschal week, 181, 182, 184. Spectacles and stage plays are censured, 460. Various superstitions, 432-434.
Symposia (banquets) by contribution are not to be held by clerics, nor even by laymen, 226. Symposia are not to be held in churches, 133. Symposia, whether with pagans or on feast days, are forbidden, 437. Synisactae (syneisaktos) women are not to be with clerics, 219, 368. Moreover, the cohabitation of women is forbidden, 220, 221. Synods are to be held in the place which the metropolitan has designated, 210. An annual synod of bishops, 36, 149, 150, 210, 211. A synod of bishops twice in the year, 207-209. Nor is it permitted for a bishop to be absent from a synod, ibid. and 211.
T
Commendation of ecclesiastical traditions, 12 ff. Enumeration of the same, 17 ff. Privilege of three years' possession, 402. Addition to the Trisagion is forbidden, 7.
U
Usury is forbidden to clerics, 271, 274, 295. Custom of offering grapes at the altar, 137. A wife remained with a husband who was an adulterer, according to ecclesiastical custom; a husband did not remain with an adulterous wife, 417. The wife of a man who becomes a bishop should either enter a monastery, or, if she is worthy, be made a deaconess, 304. It is not permitted for a man to dismiss a wife who is possessed by a demon, 469.
V
He who inflicts violent defilement upon a virgin is excommunicated. Nor is it permitted for him to take another woman as his wife besides her, 266. The fall of sacred virgins, 372 ff. Saint Basil did not admit the secular professions of men, 368.
Z
Saint Peter of Alexandria testifies that Zacharias, the father of John the Precursor, was killed between the temple and the altar, 455.