distinction — Decretum of Gratian
Distinction LVIII
GRATIAN. Likewise, no one shall be assumed from the monastic habit to ecclesiastical office unless he has been offered by the will of his own abbot. Hence Gregory writes [to Marinianus, Bishop of Ravenna, Book VII, epistle 18]:
GRATIANUS. Item ex monachali habitu nullus assumatur ad ecclesiasticum offitium, nisi fuerit oblatus uoluntate proprii abbatis. Unde Gregorius scribit: [Mariniano Episcopo Rauennati, lib. VII. epist. 18.]
Friedberg, col. 223/224
C. I. A monk shall not be ordained a cleric unless he was offered to the bishop by the abbot’s will.
No monk shall be brought forth from a monastery to ecclesiastical office unless the abbot of the place, having been admonished, offers him to the bishop by his own will.
C. I. Monachus non ordinetur clericus, nisi uoluntate abbatis episcopo fuerit oblatus.
Ad ecclesiasticum uero offitium nullus ex monasterio producatur monachus, nisi quem abbas loci admonitus propria uoluntate obtulerit episcopo.
Friedberg, col. 223/224
C. II. Concerning the same.
Likewise from the Fifth Council of Carthage [c. 13]. If anyone wishes either to promote to clerical status one found in another’s monastery or to establish him as superior of the monastery in his own monastery, let the bishop who did this, separated from the communion of the others, be content only with the communion of his own people, and let the man continue neither as cleric nor as provost.
C. II. De eodem.
Item ex Concilio Cartaginensi V. [c. 13.] Si quis de alterius monasterio repertum uel ad clericatum promouere uoluerit, uel in suo monasterio maiorem monasterii constituere, episcopus, qui hoc fecerit, a communione ceterorum seiunctus, suae tantummodo plebis communione contentus sit, et ille neque clericus neque prepositus perseueret.
Friedberg, col. 223/224