Folia Theologica 17. (2006)
Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi: The importance of the councils of Toledo of the 6th-8th centuries in the Spanish and in the universal canonical discipline of the Church
234 SZ. A. SZUROMI sions which were made in response to various questions. But one of the councils is perhaps the most significant, especially for the universal canonical collections. This is the Fourth Council of Toledo in 633, and those 75 canons which were the fruits of this council. Its canons made the strongest influence on the Decretum Gratiani (1140) from the canonical material of the Iberian peninsula.24 The council was lead by Sisenand, and 63 other bishops were there, including the most well-known and later canonized bishop of Seville, Isidore.25 The promulgated canons regulate certain liturgical questions, religious and hermits, the receiving of clerical degrees, penance, fasting, and the administering of temporal goods. Canon 4 speaks on the creed which has to be professed by every priest and deacon for their diocesan disposition.26 This disposition is given in written form by the competent bishop (cf. can. 26).27 Canon 13 gives mutual liturgical instructions how the Holy Mass has to be celebrated, and we can read supplementary rules concerning the liturgical vestments in canon 28.28 The already quoted canon 19 regu24 Cf. D. 28 c. 3; D. 4 c. 85 de cons.; D. 1 c. 54 de cons.; D. 51 c. 5; D. 77 c. 7; C. 12 q. 1 c. I; D. 38 c. 1; D. 38 c. 2; C. 11 q. 3 c. 65; C. 26 q. 5 c. 5; C. 23 q. 8 c. 29; C. 10 q. 1 c. 6; C. 16 q. 1 c. 60; C. 16 q. 3 c. 4; C. 10 q. 1 c. 11; C. 16 q. 3 c. 3; C. 16 q. 7 c. 9; C. 12 q. 2 c. 66; C. 16 q. 7 c. 30; D. 93 c. 20; D. 25 c. 3; C. 1 q. 4 c. 7; D. 81 c. 30; C. 23 q. 8 c. 5; C. 19 q. 1 c. 1; C. 18 q. 2 c. 1; D. 45 c. 5; D. 4 c. 94 de cons.; C. 28 q. 1 c. 11 ; C. 28 q. 1 c. 12; C. 28 q. 1 c. 10; C. 2 q. 7 c. 24; C. 17 q. 4 c. 31; C. 12 q. 2 c. 33; C. 12 q. 2 c. 65; C. 12 q. 2 c. 61; D. 87 c. 8; D. 54 c. 5; C. 12 q. 2 c. 58. Cf. FRIEDBERG, A., Corpus iuris canonici, I. Lipsiae 1879. xxi-xxii. 25 Cf. DÍAZ Y DlAZ, M.C., Vie chrétienne et culture dans l’Espagne du Vile au Xe siècles, Aldershot 1992. 1/87-94. 26 C. 4: Quando presbiteri et diacones per parrochias constituuntur, oportet eos professionem episcopo suo facere, ut caste et pure uiuant sub timore Dei, ut, dum eos talis professio obligat, uitae sanctae disciplinam retineant. HINSCHIUS 365. 27 C. 26; Quando presbiteri in parrochis ordinantur, libellum offitialem a sacerdote suo accipiant, ut ad ecclesias sibi deputatas instructi succedant, ne per ignorantiam etiam in ipsis diuinis sacramentis offendant. Cum uero ad letanias uel ad concilium uenerint, rationem episcopo suo reddant, qualiter susceptum officium celebrent, uel baptizent. HINSCHIUS 368. 28 C. 28: Episcopus, presbiter aut diaconus a gradu suo iniuste deiectus, si in secunda sinodo innocens inueniatur, non potest esse quod fuerat, nis gradus amissos recipiat coram altari de manu episcoporum: si episcopus est, orarium, et baculum et anulum; si presbiter, orarium et planetam; si diaconus, orarium et albam; si subdiaconus, planetam et calicem. Sic et reliqui gradus in reparatione sua recipiant ea, que, cum ordinarentur, perceperant. HINSCHIUS 369.
