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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Fourth Ecumenical Council. The Council of Chalcedon.: Canon XXIII

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It has come to the hearing of the holy Synod that certain clergymen and monks, having no authority from their own bishop, and sometimes, indeed, while under sentence of excommunication by him, betake themselves to the imperial Constantinople, and remain there for a long time, raising disturbances and troubling the ecclesiastical state, p. 284 and turning men’s houses upside down. Therefore the holy Synod has determined that such persons be first notified by the Advocate of the most holy Church…