Canon 143
On the prohibition of accepting complaints against clergy from those (clergy and laity) who are excommunicated from church communion.
Everyone wanted it: since in the previous council decrees there were definitions about persons who should not be allowed to accuse clergy, but it was not specified which particular persons should not be allowed, then we determine that one who, being deprived of communion, is still in this excommunication, - whether a cleric or a layman, wants to become an accuser - cannot be allowed to accuse.
Greek original
Ἤρεσε τοίνυν πᾶσιν, ἐπειδὴ τοῖς ἀνωτέροις τῶν συνόδων ψηφίσμασι περὶ προσώπων κληρικῶν, τῶν ὀφειλόντων εἰς κατηγορίαν προσδεχθῆναι ὡρίσθη, καὶ οὐκ ἐπεξεργάσθη, ποῖα πρόσωπα μὴ προσδεχθῶσι, διὰ τοῦτο ὁρίζομεν τοῦτον ὀρθῶς πρὸς κατηγορίαν μὴ εἰσδέχεσθαι, ὅστις μετὰ τὸ ἀπὸ κοινωνίας γενέσθαι, ἐν αὐτῷ ἔτι τῷ ἀφορισμῷ ὑπάρχει, εἴτε κληρικὸς εἴη, εἴτε λαϊκὸς ὁ κατηγορῆσαι βουλόμενος.[1]
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