{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140697.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140697.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140697.htm","text":"That \u0152conomi ought to be in the Episcopal palaces and in the Monasteries.\nSince we are under obligation to guard all the divine canons, we ought by all means to maintain in its integrity that one which says \u0153conomi are to be in each church. If the metropolitan appoints in his Church an \u0153conomus, he does well; but if he does not, it is permitted to the Bishop of Constantinople by his own (\u1f30\u03b4\u03af\u03b1\u03c2) authority to choose an \u0153conomus for the Church of the Metropolitan. A like authority belongs to the p. 563 metropolitans, if the Bishops who are subject to them do not wish to appoint \u0153conomi in their churches. The same rule is also to be observed with respect to monasteries.\nIf the Metropolitan does not elect an \u0153conomus of the metropolis, the patriarch shall do so. If the bishop shall not do so, the Metropolitan shall; for so it seemed good to the fathers assembled at Chalcedon. The same law shall hold in monasteries.\nThe Synod of Chalcedon required the appointment of special \u0153conomi only for all bishops\u2019 churches; but our synod extended this prescription also to monasteries.\nBishops at their ordination among other things promise that they will observe the canons, and the bishops of the Synod say that among these canons they are bound to keep the one that orders them to appoint an \u0152conomus.\nAmong the officials of the Constantinopolitan Church, Codinus names first The Grand \u0152conomus, \u201cwho\u201d (he says) \u201cholds in his own power all the faculties of the Church, and all their returns; and is the dispenser in this matter as well to the Patriarch as to the Church.\u201d\nBalsamon and Aristenus refer to Canon xxvj. of Chalcedon; and point out how here the power of Constantinople was added to.\nThis canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian\u2019s Decretum, Pars. II., Causa IX., Qu\u00e6st. III., Canon iij.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Seventh Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Nice.: Canon XI","type":"page"}