Canon 53
About the supervision of the life of virgins dedicated to God.
Let the sacred virgins, when they are separated from their fathers who protected them, be entrusted to the care of the bishop or, in his absence, the presbyter to the most respectable wives. Or let the virgins, having settled together, protect each other themselves, so as not to wander around and thereby damage the good name of the Church.
Greek original
Ὥστε τὰς ἱερὰς παρθένους, ὅτε τῶν πατέρων χωρίζονται, ἐξ ὧν ἐφυλάττοντο, τῇ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου, ἢ αὐτοῦ ἀπόντος, τῇ τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου προνοίᾳ ταῖς τιμιωτέραις γυναιξὶ παρατίθεσθαι, ἢ ἅμα κατοικούσας ἀλλήλας φυλάττειν, ἵνα μὴ πανταχοῦ πλαζόμεναι, τὴν ὑπόληψιν βλάψωσι τῆς ἐκκλησίας.[1]
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