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The
Quinisext Council was a church council held in
692 at
Constantinople under
Justinian II. It is often known as the
Council in Trullo, because it was held in the same domed hall where the
Sixth Ecumenical Council had met. Both the
Fifth and the Sixth Ecumenical Councils had omitted to draw up disciplinary
canons, and as this council was intended to complete both in this respect, it took the name of Quinisext (
Latin:
Concilium Quinisextum,
Koine Greek:
Penthekte Synodos), for example the Fifth-Sixth Council. It was attended by 215
bishops, all from the
Eastern Roman Empire. Basil of Gortyna in
Illyria, however, belonged to the Roman
patriarchate and called himself
papal legate, though no evidence is extant of his right to use a title that in the East served to clothe the decrees with Roman (Western) authority. It is frequently claimed that the Western (
Latin Rite) Church, including the
Papacy, never recognized the 102 disciplinary canons of this council, however the whole of these canons were accepted and confirmed by Roman
Pope Hadrian I.
Many of the canons were reiterations of previously passed canons. However, most of the new canons exhibited an inimical attitude towards Churches not in disciplinary accord with Constantinople, especially the Western Churches. Their customs are anathematized and "every little detail of difference is remembered to be condemned" (
Adrian Fortescue).
Among the practices of the Latin Church thus condemned were the practice of celebrating
Masses on weekdays in
Lent (rather than having
Pre-Sanctified Liturgies); of
fasting on Saturdays throughout the year; of omitting the "
Alleluia" in Lent; of depicting Christ as a
lamb; and the discipline of
celibacy for all
priests and
deacons. This last merits further elaboration: not content merely to condemn the discipline of celibacy in the case of priests and deacons, the Council declared that anyone who tries to separate a priest or deacon from his wife is to be
excommunicated. Likewise any cleric who leaves his wife because he's
ordained is also to be excommunicated.
Pope Sergius I protested the council, and refused to sign the canons. At
Sergius's refusal,
Justinian dispatched a military delegation to Rome to induce
Sergius to sign; the imperial army at Ravenna, however, composed mainly of native Italians, rallied to support the Roman Pontiff, marching on Rome. Meanwhile, in
Visigothic Spain, the council was ratified by the
Eighteenth Council of Toledo at the urging of the king,
Wittiza, who was villified by later chroniclers for his decision.
Fruela I of Asturias reversed the decision of Toledo sometime during his reign (757–768). For the attitude of the
Popes, substantially identical, in face of the various attempts to obtain their approval of these canons see
Hefele.
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