distinction — Decretum of Gratian
Distinction LXXII
GRATIAN. A bishop, however, is to grant dimissory letters only when requested, as was enacted in the Synod held at Rome.
GRATIANUS. Dimissorias uero litteras episcopus non nisi rogatus tribuat sicut statutum est in Sinodo habita Romae.
Friedberg, col. 259/260
C. I. Dimissory letters are not to be furnished to anyone unless he himself requests them.
Let a bishop not make dimissory letters for a priest subject to him or another cleric unless requested by that very man, lest the sheep be found as though lost or wandering.
C. I. Nisi eodem petente, nulli dimissoriae litterae prestentur.
Episcopus subiecto sibi sacerdoti, uel alii clerico, nisi ab ipso postulatus, dimissorias non faciat, ne ouis quasi perdita aut errans inueniatur.
Friedberg, col. 259/260
C. II. On the same.
Likewise from the Third Council of Carthage, [c. 21]. Let no one dare either to retain another’s cleric, unless his bishop grants him, or to promote him in the church entrusted to himself. Readers, psalmists, and doorkeepers also retain the name of clerics.
C. II. De eodem.
Item ex Concilio Cartaginensi III. [c. 21.] Clericum alienum, nisi concedente episcopo, nemo audeat uel retinere, uel promouere in ecclesiam sibi creditam. Clericorum autem nomen etiam lectores et psalmistae et hostiarii retinent.
Friedberg, col. 259/260
C. III. One ordained in one church is not to be received in another.
Likewise from the Council of Milevis, [II, c. 15]. It has pleased us that whoever is elected even once in a church is not to be held for the clerical state by another church.
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C. III. In una ecclesia ordinatus in alia non suscipiatur.
Item ex Concilio Mileuitano. [II. c. 15.] Placuit, ut quicumque in ecclesia uel semel eligitur ab alia ecclesia ad clericatum non teneatur.
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Friedberg, col. 259/260