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

Canon 97

About penance for those who turn sacred places into residential ones.
Those people who, either by living with their wife or otherwise transforming sacred places into ordinary ones, without making any distinction between them, treat them with disdain and remain in them with such disposition, we command to be expelled from those places in sacred houses that are intended for the catechumens. If someone does not comply with this, then if he is a cleric, let him be deposed, and if he is a layman, let him be excommunicated.
Greek original
Τοὺς ἢ γαμετῇ συνοικοῦντας, ἢ ἄλλως ἀδιακρίτως τοὺς ἱεροὺς τόπους κοινοποιοῦντας, καὶ καταφρονητικῶς περὶ αὐτοὺς ἔχοντας, καὶ οὕτως ἐν αὐτοῖς καταμένοντας, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐν τοῖς σεβασμίοις ναοῖς κατηχουμένων ἐξωθεῖσθαι προστάσσομεν. Εἰ δέ τις μὴ τοῦτο παραφυλάξοι, εἰ μὲν κληρικὸς εἴη, καθαιρείσθω· εἰ δὲ λαϊκός, ἀφοριζέσθω.
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