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

Canon 23

That the readers during the service should only bow to the bishops and presbyters, and not to the people in the church, since they have accepted initiation.
It was desirable that the readers did not bow to the people.
Greek original
Καὶ οἱ ἀναγνῶσται τὸν δῆμον μὴ προσκυνῶσι.[1]
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