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Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian · St Theodota, Mother of Cosmas and Damian

Canon 32

That those excommunicated by their own bishops should not be accepted or allowed to do penance by other bishops.
If a presbyter or deacon is excommunicated by a bishop, he is not permitted to be received into communion by anyone other than the one who excommunicated him, unless the bishop who excommunicated him dies.
Greek original
Εἴ τις πρεσβύτερος, ἢ διάκονος, ὑπὸ ἐπισκόπου γένηται ἐν ἀφορισμῷ, τοῦτον μὴ ἐξεῖναι παρ᾿ ἑτέρου δεχθῆναι ἀλλ᾿ ἢ παρὰ τοῦ ἀφορίσαντος αὐτόν, εἰ μὴ ἂν κατὰ συγκυρίαν τελευτήσῃ ὁ ἀφορίσας αὐτὸν ἐπίσκοπος.
Parallel canons
Ап.121316IВс.5IIВс.6Антиох.6Сард.13Карф.1129133Св.Соф.1
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