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On the procedure for electing a bishop when a dispute arises among the people about his candidacy.
If we proceed to elect a bishop and some objection arises (since such cases have been considered by us), then in this case it would be an impudence for only 3 bishops to gather to justify the one who is to be ordained. But let 1 or 2 bishops be added to the number mentioned above; and before the very people for whom they intend to ordain him, let them first examine the identity of those objecting, and then add what they have presented. And when he turns out to be clean in the face of the people, only then let him be ordained.
Greek original
Ἐκεῖνο δὲ ὁρίσαι δεῖ, ὥστε, ἐάν ποτε πρὸς ἐπιλογὴν ἐπισκόπου προέλθωμεν, καὶ ἀναφυῇ τις ἀντιλογία, ἐπειδὴ τὰ τοιαῦτα παρ᾽ ἡμῖν ἐτρακταΐσθησαν, τολμηρὸν εἶναι λοιπόν, τρεῖς μόνους πρὸς τὸ καθᾶραι τὸν χειροτονηθησόμενον εὑρεθῆναι, ἀλλὰ τῷ προλεχθέντι ἀριθμῷ προστεθῇ εἷς καὶ δύο, καὶ ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ λαοῦ, οὗ μέλλει χειροτονεῖσθαι, ἐξετασθῶσι πρῶτον τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν ἀντιλεγόντων· εἰς ὕστερον γὰρ καὶ τὰ προτεθειμένα συζευχθῶσι· καὶ ὅτε καθαρὸς φανείη ἐπὶ δημοσίας προσόψεως, εἶθ᾽ οὕτω χειροτονηθείη. Ἐὰν τοῦτο καταδέχηται ἡ ὑμετέρα ἁγιωσύνη, τῇ ὁμονοητικῇ ἀποκρίσει τοῦ ὑμετέρου ἀξιώματος βεβαιωθείη. Ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐπισκόπων ἐλέχθη· Πάνυ ἀρέσκει.
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