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SYNOD OF ANCYRA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SYNOD OF See also:ANCYRA .—An important ecclesiastical synod was held at Ancyra, the seat of the See also:Roman See also:administration for the See also:province of See also:Galatia, in A.D. 314. The See also:season was soon of ter See also:Easter; the See also:year may be safely deduced from the fact that the first nine canons are intended to repair havoc wrought in the See also:church by persecution, which ceased after the overthrow of Maximinus in 313. The tenth See also:canon tolerates the marriages of deacons who previous to ordination had reserved the right to take a wife; the thirteenth forbids chorepiscopi to ordain presbyters or deacons; the eighteenth safeguards the right of the See also:people in objecting to the See also:appointment of a See also:bishop whom they do not wish. See Mansi, ii. 514 if. The See also:critical See also:text of R. B. Rackham (See also:Oxford, 1891), Studies biblica et ecclesiastica, iii. 139 if., is conveniently re-printed in Lauchert 29 if. H. R.

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Percival translates and comments on an old text in the Nicene and See also:Post-Nicene Fathers (2nd See also:series), xiv. 61 if. An elaborate discussion is found in See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte (2nd ed.), i. 219 if. (See also:English See also:translation, i. 199 ff.); more briefly in See also:Herzog-Hauck (3rd ed.), i. 497. For full titles see See also:COUNCIL. (W. W.

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