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LAODICEA, SYNOD OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAODICEA, See also:SYNOD OF , held at Laodicea ad Lycum in See also:Phrygia, some See also:time between 343 and 381 (so See also:Hefele; but See also:Baronius argues for 314, and others for a date as See also:late as 399), adopted sixty canons, chiefly disciplinary, which were declared ecumenical by the See also:council of See also:Chalcedon, 451. The most significant canons are those directly affecting the See also:clergy, wherein the clergy appear as a privileged class, far above the laity, but with sharply differentiated and carefully graded orders within itself. For example, the priests are not to be chosen by the See also:people; penitents are not to be See also:present at ordinations (lest they should hear the failings of candidates discussed); bishops are to be appointed by the See also:metropolitan and his See also:suffragan; sub-deacons may not distribute the elements of the See also:Eucharist; clerics are forbidden to leave a See also:diocese without the See also:bishop's permission. Other canons treat of intercourse with heretics, See also:admission of penitent heretics, See also:baptism, fasts, See also:Lent, See also:angel-See also:worship (for-bidden as idolatrous) and the canonical books, from which the Apocrypha and See also:Revelation are wanting. See Mansi ii. 563-614; See also:Hardouin i. 777-792; Hefele, 2nd ed., i. 746-777 (Eng. trans. ii. 295-325). (T. F.

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