Правило 20
On the prohibition of clergy moving to another diocese without the blessing of their bishop.
Clerics assigned to the church are not allowed, as we have already decided, to be assigned to a church in another city, but should be content with the one in which they were originally honored to serve, with the exception of those who, having lost their fatherland, of necessity moved to another church. If, after this determination, any bishop accepts a clergyman who is subordinate to another bishop, then we have decided that both the accepted and the accepted one will be alien to communion until the transferred cleric returns to his church.
Greek original
Κληρικοὺς εἰς ἐκκλησίαν τελοῦντας, καθὼς ἤδη ὡρίσαμεν, μὴ ἐξεῖναι εἰς ἄλλης πόλεως τάττεσθαι ἐκκλησίαν· ἀλλὰ στέργειν ἐκείνην, ἐν ᾗ λειτουργεῖν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἠξιώθησαν, ἐκτὸς ἐκείνων, οἵτινες ἀπολέσαντες τὰς οἰκείας πατρίδας ἀπὸ ἀνάγκης, εἰς ἄλλην ἐκκλησίαν μετῆλθον. Εἰ δέ τις ἐπίσκοπος μετὰ τὸν ὅρον τοῦτον, ἄλλῳ ἐπισκόπῳ προσήκοντα δέξοιτο κληρικόν, ἔδοξεν ἀκοινώνητον εἶναι καὶ τὸν δεχθέντα, καὶ τὸν δεξάμενον, ἕως ἂν ὁ μεταστὰς κληρικὸς εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν ἐπανέλθῃ ἐκκλησίαν.
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