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Greatmartyr and Healer Panteleimon

Правило 135

About the need for bishops to use every effort to bring the Donatists into Catholic unity and sanctions for neglecting this.
It was convenient: those who are careless about acquiring places for catholic unity that are subordinate to their see should be encouraged by the zealous bishops neighboring them with reproaches so that they do not postpone this matter. Therefore, if within a period of 6 months from the date of the meeting on this issue, they do nothing, let these places be transferred to someone who can purchase them. However, if the one to whom it is known that these places belong, decided to leave them without attention deliberately, due to some economy, since the heretics preferred that he acquire them without noise, and at this time another bishop warned his care, which, if he had used it earlier, would only have embittered the heretics, then, when all this becomes clear at the court of bishops, the places will be returned to his see. If bishops from different regions judge, the judges will be appointed by the leading bishop in whose region the very place in question is located. If, by mutual agreement, they elect neighboring bishops as judges, let them choose either one or three. And if they choose three and are satisfied with them, let either all or two follow the decision.
Greek original
Ὁμοίως ἤρεσεν, ἵνα, οἱτινεσδήποτε ἀμελῶσι τῶν τόπων τῶν ἀνηκόντων τῇ αὐτῶν καθέδρᾳ, πρὸς τὸ τούτους κερδᾶναι εἰς τὴν καθολικὴν ἑνότητα, ἐγκληθῶσιν ἀπὸ τῶν γειτνιώντων αὐτοῖς ἐπιμελῶν ἐπισκόπων, περὶ τοῦ μὴ ἀναβάλλεσθαι τοῦτο πρᾶξαι. Διό, ἐὰν ἐντὸς προθεσμίας μηνῶν ἓξ ἀπὸ τῆς ἡμέρας τῆς περὶ τούτου συνελεύσεως μηδὲν ἀνύσωσι, τῷ δυναμένῳ λοιπὸν τούτους κερδᾶναι προσκυρωθῶσιν· οὕτω μέντοι, ἵνα, ἐὰν ἐκεῖνος, πρὸς ὃν ἐνδείκνυνται ἀνήκειν οἱ τοιοῦτοι, ἐξεπίτηδες διά τινα οἰκονομίαν ἔδοξεν ἀμελεῖν, τοῦτο τῶν αἱρετικῶν ἐπιλεξαμένων, ὥστε ἀθορύβως αὐτοὺς παραδέξασθαι· καὶ ἐν τοσούτῳ ἡ αὐτοῦ ἐπιμέλεια ἀπὸ ἑτέρου προελήφθη, ᾗ τινι εἰ κατεχρήσατο, τοὺς αὐτοὺς αἱρετικοὺς πλέον ἐκάκιζε, τούτου μεταξύ ἐπισκόπων κρινόντων διαγινωσκομένου, οἱ τόποι τῇ αὐτοῦ καθέδρᾳ ἀποκατασταθῶσι. Τῶν δὲ κρινόντων ἐπισκόπων, ἐκ διαφόρων ὄντων ἐπαρχιῶν, ἐκεῖνος ὁ πρωτεύων τοὺς δικαστὰς δώσει, οὗτινος ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ὁ αὐτὸς ὑπάρχει τόπος, περὶ οὗ φιλονεικεῖται. Ἐὰν δὲ κατὰ κοινὴν συναίνεσιν γείτονας ἐπιλέξωνται κριτάς, ἢ εἷς ἐπιλεγῇ, ἢ τρεῖς· καὶ ἐὰν τρεῖς ἐπιλέξωνται, ἢ τῇ τῶν ὅλων ψήφῳ ἐξακολουθήσωσιν, ἢ τῇ τῶν δύο.[1]
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