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

Canon 77

About the fact that someone who has a physical defect (lameness, lack of an eye) can be a bishop if he is worthy.
If someone has an injured eye or a mutilated leg, but he is worthy to be a bishop, let him be, for it is not physical injury that can defile him, but spiritual defilement.
Greek original
Εἴ τις ἀνάπηρος ᾖ τὸν ὀφθαλμόν, ἢ τὸ σκέλος πεπληγμένος, ἄξιος δέ ἐστιν ἐπισκοπῆς, γινέσθω· οὐ γὰρ λώβη σώματος αὐτὸν μιαίνει, ἀλλὰ ψυχῆς μολυσμός.
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