Council of Tours (567)
The Council of Tours took place in 567 in the city of Tours (Franconia). It was opened on November 18 of this year with the approval of King Charibert I and had only nine participants, including the presiding Bishop Euphronius of Tours , Bishop Germanus of Paris and Bishop Praetextatus of Rouen .
decisions
The bishops participating in the council harshly criticized the behavior of the Merovingian kings, who, driven by bad people, would rage against each other and acquire property of others. In the first canon, the cohesion of the bishops was invoked; Even royal orders should not be used as an excuse for absenteeism from provincial synods; spiritual work takes precedence over decrees of the king.
The council also decided
- that a violation of celibacy is a form of heresy ( Nicolaitism ).
- that bishops are now entitled to excommunicate priests .
- that every civitas (by which, among other things, the parish is meant) should support their poor.
See also
literature
- Art. Turonese II . In: Jean Baptiste Glaire, Joseph-Alexis Walsh (ed.): Encyclopédie catholique. Répertoire universel et raisonné des sciences, des lettres, des arts et des métiers, formant une bibliothèque universelle . Vol. 9: Communion - Czvittinger . Parent-Desbarres, Paris 1846, p. 133.
Remarks
- ↑ Sebastian Scholz : The Merovingians. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-17-022507-7 , pp. 128f.
- ↑ Why the Roman Catholic Church adheres to celibacy ( Memento from July 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Heinrich Pompey : The commitment to the poor in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Catholic and Reformation influencing factors of the new municipal and state poor system using the example of the city of Strasbourg with comparisons to Freiburg i.Br. In: Konrad Krimm (Ed.): Poverty and Welfare in the Early Modern Age (= Upper Rhine Studies, Vol. 29). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-7829-5 , pp. 41-68.
- ^ Wilhelm Liese : History of Caritas . Caritasverlag, Freiburg 1922, vol. 1, p. 130.