Canon 91
On excommunication from communion with the rest of the bishops of one of them who accepts any monk from the underlying bishop without a letter of dismissal (vacation) in order to enroll him in his clergy or make him abbot of one of his monasteries.
It was convenient: if a bishop accepts someone from a foreign monastery and wants to promote him to the clergy or appoint him as abbot of his monastery, then let him, if he does so, be deprived of communication with the rest and be content with communication only with his own people, and the appointed one will remain neither a cleric nor an abbot.
Greek original
Ὁμοίως ἤρεσεν, ἵνα, ἐάν τις ἀπὸ ἀλλότριου μοναστηρίου ὑποδέξηταί τινα, καὶ πρὸς κλήρωσιν προαγαγεῖν ἐθελήσοι, ἢ τοῦ ἰδίου μοναστηρίου ἡγούμενον καταστήσοι, ὁ τοῦτο ποιῶν ἐπίσκοπος ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν λοιπῶν κοινωνίας χωριζόμενος, τῇ τοῦ ἰδίου λαοῦ κοινωνίᾳ ἀρκεσθῇ μόνῃ· ἐκεῖνος δέ, μηδὲ κληρικός, μηδὲ ἡγούμενος ἐπιμείνῃ.[1]
Parallel canons
Ап.141516IВс.1516IVВс.410Трул.171820VIIВс.1921Антиох.321Сард.1131516Карф.5490Двукр.2