Правило 10
On the powers of chorepiscopes (rural bishops).
The Holy Council decided that those in small towns or villages, or (ἤ τούς) so-called chorebishops, even if they accepted ordination as bishops, knew their limits and, governing the churches subordinate to them, limited themselves to care and concern for them, supplied readers, subdeacons and exorcists and, being content with producing only these ranks, not They did not dare to ordain a presbyter or a deacon without the bishop of the city, to whom the chorebishop himself and his region are subordinate. If anyone dares to violate this definition, let him be expelled and deprived of the honor that he enjoys. The chorebishop should be appointed by the bishop of the city to which his region is subordinate.
Greek original
Τοὺς ἐν ταῖς κώμαις, ἢ ταῖς χώραις, ἢ τοὺς καλουμένους χωρεπισκόπους, εἰ καὶ χειροθεσίαν εἶεν ἐπισκόπου εἰληφότες, ἔδοξε τῇ ἁγίᾳ συνόδῳ εἰδέναι τὰ ἑαυτῶν μέτρα, καὶ διοικεῖν τὰς ὑποκειμένας αὐτοῖς ἐκκλησίας, καὶ τῇ τούτων ἀρκεῖσθαι φροντίδι καὶ κηδεμονίᾳ, καθιστᾶν δὲ ἀναγνώστας, καὶ ὑποδιακόνους, καὶ ἐφορκιστάς, καὶ τῇ τούτων ἀρκεῖσθαι προαγωγῇ· μήτε δὲ πρεσβύτερον, μήτε διάκονον χειροτονεῖν τολμᾶν δίχα τοῦ ἐν τῇ πόλει ἐπισκόπου, ᾗ ὑπόκεινται αὐτός τε καὶ ἡ χώρα. Εἰ δὲ τολμήσειέ τις παραβῆναι τὰ ὁρισθέντα, καθαιρεῖσθαι αὐτὸν καὶ ἧς μετέχει τιμῆς. Χωρεπίσκοπον δὲ γίνεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ τῆς πόλεως, ᾗ ὑπόκειται, ἐπισκόπου.
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