Canon 36
On the excommunication of clergy who did not accept the ministry entrusted to them.
If anyone, having been ordained a bishop, does not accept the ministry entrusted to him and the care of the people, he should be excommunicated until he accepts. Likewise the presbyter and the deacon. If, having departed, he is not accepted, not because of his own will, but because of the corruption of the people, then let him remain a bishop, and let the clergy of the city be excommunicated for not instructing such a rebellious people.
Greek original
Εἴ τις χειροτονηθεὶς ἐπίσκοπος μὴ καταδέχοιτο τὴν λειτουργίαν καὶ τὴν φροντίδα τοῦ λαοῦ τὴν ἐγχειρισθεῖσαν αὐτῷ, τοῦτον ἀφωρισμένον τυγχάνειν ἕως ἂν καταδέξηται· ὡσαύτως καὶ πρεσβύτερος καὶ διάκονος. Εἰ δὲ ἀπελθὼν μὴ δεχθείη, οὐ παρὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γνώμην ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὴν τοῦ λαοῦ μοχθηρίαν, αὐτὸς μὲν ἔστω ἐπίσκοπος, ὁ δὲ κλῆρος τῆς πόλεως ἀφοριζέσθω, ὅτι τοιούτου λαοῦ ἀνυποτάκτου παιδευταὶ οὐκ ἐγένοντο.
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