From the Council of Ancyra, A.D. 314

Canon X. Whatever deacons, in the very constitution, testified and said that they ought to marry wives, since they cannot remain thus, if these afterwards marry a wife, let them be in the ministry, because this has been conceded to them by the bishop. But if any, this being passed over in silence, and in ordination having been received so that they would remain thus, afterwards come to marriage, let these cease from the diaconate.

This is a certain tempering applied by these Fathers to the common custom, and it was never commonly received in the Church. The reason may have been a certain special condition of the Churches of Asia Minor and Syria, whose Bishops came together there at that age because of a scarcity of sacred ministers.

Canon XI. Girls betrothed to some men and afterwards carried off by others, it seemed good that they be restored to those to whom they had been betrothed, even if they suffered force.

Cf. Canon XXII of Basil below.

Canon XIX. Whoever, professing virginity, render their profession void, let them fulfill the definition of bigamists (that is, the defined penalty). But we have prohibited virgins who meet with certain men as sisters.

This canon is milder than Canon XIII of Elvira, nor is there speech concerning perpetual abstinence from copula. Dr. Hefele says that here the matter concerns violation of profession by legitimate marriage, but there violation by fornication or lust alone. Yet this, as we noted, is not sufficiently established. Nevertheless it is certain that already from the first centuries this sense reveals itself in the Church: that it is repugnant for professed virgins, dedicated to God, to be joined in marriage.

The virgins who met with certain men as sisters did not indeed intend carnal intercourse; but such living together is prohibited because of danger.

Canon XXIV. A certain man, having a betrothed woman, violated her sister and rendered her pregnant; afterwards he married as wife the one betrothed to him. But she who had been corrupted destroyed herself with a noose. Those who were conscious of it were ordered to be received after ten years of penance, according to the established grades of penance.

Moved by a certain fact, says Balsamon on this canon, the Fathers issued the present canon. In this fact, as the same man notes, many wicked things were committed: fornication, illicit marriage, killing.