Author : Hieromonk Matthew Blastares
Publisher : Vladimir Djambov
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Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Syntagma Alphabeticum Canonum – Hieromonk Matthew Blastares written by Hieromonk Matthew Blastares and published by Vladimir Djambov. This book was released on with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self Containment (reproachfully for inserting the text on the "Syntagma" ) FOREWORD - ABOUT THE ORTHODOX FAITH The beginning of the letter A Chapter 1 - about those who have renounced the immaculate Christian faith, and how those who repent should be received. - About the clergy who renounced the faith for the sake of fear. - About the laity who renounced the faith. - About those who arbitrarily renounce the faith. - About those who, after renouncing the faith, persecuted others. - About the catechumens who renounced the faith. - About those who, I beat are forced to renounce the faith, did not submit Chapter 2 - about heretics, and how those who turn from heresies should be received. - About encratites. - About hydroparas. - About the Eunomians. - About the Arians. - About Macedonians and Semi-Arians. - About Novate - About Savvatiy. - About aristers. - About four-ten-days. - About notebooks. - About Apollinaria. - About Montana Phrygian. - About pepuziani. - About Savelli. - About former peacocks. - About the Paulicians. - About Dioscorus and Eutyches. - About Sever. - About the Manichaeans. - About the Valentinians, or Eutychs, Bogomils and Massalians. - How should the Navatian be taken. - How should donatists be received. - About Donat - About angelites. - About Maxim Cynic. - About Nestoria. - About the feud that took place between Saint Cyril and blessed Theodoret. - About Celestia. - That those of the heretics who repent at the end of their lives should be received Chapter 3 - how the so-called "suppers of love" or feasts should be arranged Chapter 4 - about buying and selling. - About captives Chapter 5 - about those mixed with dumb (animals) or cattle-keepers Chapter 6 - about readers Chapter 7 - about anathema Chapter 8 - about antimins Chapter 9 - about the absence of bishops and clerics. - About what is movement, crossing and invasion. - About letters of representation, dismissal and peace, given from bishops to outgoing clergy Chapter 10 - about letters of leave Chapter 11 - about bishops who steal churches that do not belong to them Chapter 12 - about those who robbery steal someone else's Chapter 13 - about those who steal wives for marriage Chapter 14 - about sodomy Chapter 15 - about the bosses, what they should be Chapter 16 - about women who are in purification Chapter 17 - about minors Chapter 18 - about excommunication. - About not excommunicating anyone without blessed guilt Beginning of the letter B Chapter 1 - about holy baptism - About holy peace Chapter 2- about infants, regarding whom there is doubt whether they were baptized Chapter 3 - about baptized Hagar infants. - About those who are baptized by uninitiated persons Chapter 4 - about those who are baptized from the Jews Chapter 5 - about the king Chapter 6 - when the king enters St. altar Chapter 7-I - that the king should not be annoyed Chapter 8-I - about marriage degrees, - Separation of kinship. - About brotherhood. - About consanguinity. - About those born of fornication - About the degrees of property - About the fact that one and the same person should not take two second cousins. - On the degrees of trigeneric property. - About adoption. - About the fact that eunuchs also adopt. - About the fact that girls are also adopted. - On the perception from holy baptism. - About forbidden marriages other than kinship Chapter 9 - about those who abhor legal marriages, wine, meat and other things Chapter 10 - about violence and seizure Chapter 11 - about the books of Divine Scripture, genuine and forged. - About Metaphrast. - About what should not be cut into sacred books Chapter 12 - about the dead by violence or suicides Chapter 13 - about leap years The beginning of the letter G Chapter 1 - about marriage degrees Chapter 2 - about marriages permitted and forbidden. - Definition of marriage Chapter 3 - about those who abhor legal marriages Chapter 4 - about husbands and wives entering into a second, third and many marriages, and about persons of the initiates entering into a second marriage - About readers entering into a second marriage. - About the "volume of unity" Chapter 5 - about a wife who wants to enter into a second marriage when her husband went missing on a journey or in a war Chapter 6 - that a presbyter who blessed the marriage should not feast with a bigamist Chapter 7th - about the fact that Christians who come to marriage should not listen to games Chapter 8 - about virgins who marry without the consent of their parents Chapter 9- about illegal and unlawful family marriages. - Of clerics entering into lawless marriages. - About the laity entering into lawless marriages Chapter 10 - about those who kidnap wives for marriage Chapter 11 - about those who take into marriage consecrated to God. - About deaconesses and widows Chapter 12th - that one should not enter into marriages with heretics Chapter 13th - for what reasons a marriage is dissolved. - Dissolution of marriage with impunity and marriage terminated for the sake of feat of abstinence Chapter 14 - about deaconesses and widows Chapter 15 - about betrothed wives. - About betrothal. - On the betrothal of clerics - About the one who defiled himself with his mother-in-law - For what reasons betrothals are terminated Chapter 16 - about clerics who expel their wives under the pretext of piety. - About the laity who cast out their wives Chapter 17 - that bishops should be separated from their wives. - That a wife separated from a bishop should also be tonsured Chapter 18 - that initiates should abstain from their wives when they intend to serve as priests Chapter 19 - about bishops or clerics who have cohabiting wives Chapter 20 - I - about those who bathe with women Chapter 21 - that the wives of presbyters should not be presbyterides Chapter 22 - that women should not enter the holy altar Chapter 23 - that wives should be silent in church Chapter 24 - that women should not dress in men's clothes Chapter 25 - about the fact that a woman in childbirth does not need to observe legalized fasts Chapter 26 - about who has a raging wife Chapter 27 - about women who are in purification Chapter 28 - about women who take medicine for the eruption of a conceived fetus Chapter 29 -i - about a wife neglecting a (newly) born or leaving him Chapter 30 - about those who rape virgin wives Chapter 31 - about sorcery The beginning of the letter D Chapter 1 - about raging or pretending to be mad Chapter 2 - about creditors, loans and mortgages Chapter 3 - about the dissolution of marriage Chapter 4 - about the testament Chapter 5 - about deacons. - About the honor of the hartophylax Chapter 6 - about the second-married Chapter 7 - how the people should be taught to bishops and presbyters Chapter 8 (ch. 6) - about the truth Chapter 9 (7) - about judgments, and about clerics and laity having litigation. - About the elected judges Chapter 10 (8th) - about the bishops and clerics who are on trial for their crimes. - About accusers in courts. - About witnesses in courts. - About those who are legally expelled Chapter 11th (9th) - about not being punished twice for the same thing Chapter 12th (10th) - about those who persecute someone for piety Chapter 13- I (11th) - about the liberation of slaves and acceptance into the clergy. Chapter 14th (13th) - about gifts The beginning of the letter E Chapter 1st - about suretyship Chapter 2nd - About church unwritten customs. - About Holy Pentecost Chapter 3 - about Hellenic customs Chapter 4 - about civil customs Chapter 5 - about letters of peace Chapter 6- about holy icons. - About the cross. - The difference between honest icons and idols Chapter 7 - on arson Chapter 8 - on the leasing of property Chapter 9 - on clothes decent for initiates Chapter 10 - on pledges Chapter 11 - on privileges and advantages, who have churches and bishops. - Which Churches were awarded special privileges? - About the advantages of the Church of Constantinople - Why is the patriarch ordained from the Bishop of Heraclius? - Why was the Bishop of Thessalonica a papal legate? - On the election and consecration of bishops. - Why does the patriarch send stauropegia to the metropolitan area? - About the bishops of Bulgaria, Cyprus and Iver. - Decree of Constantine the Great Chapter 12 - on the construction and consecration of churches, - On antimensions - On those who pretend to be rampant Chapter 13 - on those who run to church Chapter 14 - that one cleric should not be in churches two cities Chapter 15-I - that there should not be so-called love suppers inside the church, nor feasts, nor be a tavern inside its sacred fences, nor offer anything for trade, nor introduce an animal without need, nor remain for someone or with a wife Chapter 16 - that church property should be inalienable, and how bishops should dispose of it Chapter 17 - about bishops Chapter 18 - about the fact that bishops should be separated from their wives Chapter 19 - about bishops who receive Churches at the request of their superiors The Church either departed and was not accepted, or who did not have the opportunity to depart, for the reason that the Church is occupied by pagans Chapter 21 - about bishops converted to metropolises, and that there should not be two metropolitans in one area - On imperial advantages Chapter 22 - that bishops should restore bishoprics and monasteries if they have become ordinary dwellings. - About the fact that lay people are not forbidden to accept monasteries Chapter 23rd - about the bishop's own estate and how he should dispose of the church property Chapter 24th - about the fact that the bishop should also have an steward (for) church property Chapter 25th - that a bishop should not build a monastery to the detriment of the property of his church Chapter 26 - that a bishop from church property should give to needy clerics Chapter 27 - that after the death of a bishop his property should not be kidnapped by his clerics or the metropolitan, but should be preserved by the one who will be ordained after him. Chapter 28 - about what a bishop should not descend to the degree of presbyter. - On the abdication of bishops Chapter 29 - on the fact that a bishop who has taken the monastic vows is deprived of the priesthood Chapter 30 - on what should not be a bishop in a small town or village Chapter 31 - on chorepiscopes. - About confessors Chapter 32 - about perjury Chapter 33 - about guardians and trustees Chapter 34 - about eunuchs Chapter 35 - about deanery of prayers. - About the Trisagion Song Chapter 36 - about exorcists The beginning of the letter Z Chapter 1 - about warm water poured into Divine Secrets Chapter 2- about depiction that harms souls through impure pleasure Chapter 3 - about cattle-keepers and those who are dumb. The beginning of the letter H Chapter 1 - about abbots Chapter 2 - about the age of ordained Chapter 3 - about the length of the day. The beginning of the letter Q Chapter 1 - about spectacles and various theatrical games Chapter 2 - about theology and the Orthodox faith Chapter 3 - about the holy Theophany Chapter 4 - about clerics who build altars against the will of their bishops Chapter 5 - that in St. the altar can freely enter only initiates, - about the fact that kings also enter when they intend to bring gifts to the divine meal, and that it is forbidden for laymen or women to enter (into the altar) Beginning of the letter I Chapter 1 - about sacred vessels and sacrilege Chapter 2 - about that inside the sacred fences one should not arrange so-called "suppers of love" - neither be innkeepers - nor offer anything for trade, nor introduce an animal without need, nor stay with someone's wife Chapter 3 - about the divine priesthood Chapter 4- I - about the Jews and about what should by no means have communion with them. - About unleavened bread, against the Latins The beginning of the letter K Chapter 1- about bishops and clerics who have already been deposed, and how many bishops they are deposed Chapter 2 - about churches or cities renewed by kings Chapter 3 - about new buildings Chapter 4 - about calends and soothsayings Chapter 5 - about church rules , and what rules should be observed Chapter 6 - about the "set duty" Chapter 7 - that the clergy should not enter the tavern Chapter 8 - about bearing fruit in divine temples. - About hydroparastats and Armenians. - About the warmth poured into the Divine Mysteries. - About the birth of the Most Holy Theotokos Chapter 9- about the accusation of bishops and clerics, and who is allowed to be accused and who is not allowed Chapter 10 - about the catechumens Chapter 11 - who should inherit the property of the bishop Chapter 12 - about inheritance and disinherited sons or parents Chapter 13 - that those who do not come from a priestly family should also be included in the clergy, if they are worthy Chapter 14 - that clerics should not be moved Chapter 15 - that clerics in need should be given from church property Chapter 16 -i - that clerics should not steal the property of a deceased cleric Chapter 17- that one cleric should not be in two cities, or serve in two churches in one city. Chapter 18 - about the fact that clerics should not do anything without the will of (their) bishop Chapter 19 - about the fact that even clergy were not ordained out of hand Chapter 20 - about what clerics of churches and monasteries should to be under the authority of a bishop Chapter 21 - that a cleric for a sin, if he falls into it, is expelled, but is not subjected to excommunication (together with the eruption) Chapter 22 - that clerics who do not submit to take the highest degree , are deprived of the one that is occupied Chapter 23-I - about theft. - About robbers Chapter 24- about what should not have communion with the excommunicated Chapter 25 - about those who do not have communion with the faithful during the celebration of the sacred liturgy, or postpone communion for three Sundays Chapter 26 - about what should not give communion to the bodies of the dead Chapter 27 - about that. that he who has communion should not approach his wife Chapter 28 - about when one who has been defiled in a dream communes. - About Malachi Chapter 29 - about the fact that nothing should be taken for divine communion Chapter 30 - about those who doubt to receive communion from a married presbyter Chapter 31 - about deanery in the communion of presbyters and laity Chapter 32 - I- about the fact that neither clerics nor monastics should receive worldly care, except until the royal command Chapter 33 - about trustees Chapter 34 - about courts where clerics and monks should be judged, and about elected judges Chapter 35 - I - about those who indulge in gambling and drunkenness Chapter 36 - that on the day of the Lord bishops should primarily teach the people Chapter 37 - that on the day of the Lord one should not fast, nor kneel, nor work, no spectacle. - About the holy Epiphany Chapter 38 - about the codickelle The beginning of the letter L Chapter 1 - about the bishops made from the laity Chapter 2- about bishops, or clerics, or monks entering the lay rank Chapter 3 - about what the laity should not be taught in the church Chapter 4 - about the divine liturgy Chapter 5 - about the Latins Chapter 6 - about robbers of the penitent Chapter 7 - about those who kill robbers Chapter 8 - about those who robbed others' property Chapter 9 - about what should not be washed by men together with women. Chapter 10 - on the birth of the Most Pure Mother of God Chapter 11 - on the dissolution of marriage The beginning of the letter M Chapter 1 - about the Magi, number-tellers and wizards, as well as about astrologers, sorcerers, and also about witchcraft, poisons and amulets. - About hundred chiefs. - About the leaders of the bears. - About cloud collectors. - About charmers Chapter 2 - about malakia Chapter 3 - about drunkards Chapter 4 - about the transfer and transfer of bishops or clerics Chapter 5 - that penitents should not be rejected Chapter 6 - about places of repentance Chapter 7 - That the bishop is granted the right to shorten or continue the penance of the penitents, depending on their disposition Chapter 8- that the penitents, at the onset of death, should be honored with divine communion, and in case of recovery they should again abstain from it Chapter 9 - that it is left to the bishops to receive the thoughts of the penitents and to decide and bind sins, and with their permission and presbyters. - About the fact that it is also established by civil laws to use punishments more philanthropicly Chapter 10 - about foul eaters Chapter 11 - about laughers and disgraceful ones Chapter 12 - about hiring Chapter 13 - about betrothal Chapter 14 - about adultery Chapter 15 is about monasteries and monks. - About how to receive those who want to get a haircut. - About those who, without prayer, put on a monastic robe. - About the hermits. - About moving from monastery to monastery. - About monastic wives. - About monks and nuns who are falling. About how a bishop makes (someone into hegumen) Chapter 16 - about the holy world The beginning of the letter N Chapter 1 - about the construction and consecration of churches Chapter 2 - about what should not happen inside the fences of the temple feasts, neither to be innkeepers, nor to offer anything for sale, nor to bring in an animal unnecessarily, nor to remain with someone with a wife Chapter 3 - about abandoned babies or doubtful whether they are baptized Chapter 4 - about fasting Chapter 5 -I - that one should not fast on Saturdays and Sundays Chapter 6 - that fasting people should abstain from food not because of the abhorrence of food Chapter 7 - about the law Chapter 8 - about possession Beginning of the letter Z Chapter 1st - about the destruction of idols Chapter 2 - about the fact that foreign clerics should receive the beginning of the letter O Chapter 1st - about what the economy should have for the bishop and abbot Chapter 2 - about bird fortune telling Chapter 3 - about defiled in a dream Chapter 4 - about oaths The beginning of the letter P Chapter 1 - about shameful games Chapter 2- about clerics eating in an inn Chapter 3 - about the renunciation of bishops Chapter 4 - about wives who have chosen virginity Chapter 5 - about fasting on Friday Chapter 6 - about trust Chapter 7 - about St. Pascha . Why does Easter come after the equinox? Why are there 19 circles of the moon? - Why are there twenty-eight solar circles? Why do moons and bases start in October? - How to find the circle of the moon? How to find the base of the moon? How to find the circle of the sun? - How to find the index? - How to find the day of the Jewish Passover? - How to find the day of Christian Easter? - How to find a meat-pusher? - About the Jewish Passover and about the disagreement regarding the full moon. That there are four restrictions for Easter. - About the spring equinox. - About the three-day resurrection Chapter 8 - about the patriarch Chapter 9 - about the periodeuses or exarchs Chapter 10 - about the Orthodox faith Chapter 11 - about covetousness and theft Chapter 12 - about how spiritual fathers should arrange those confessing to them Chapter 13 - about not eating strangled animals Chapter 14 - about punishments Chapter 15 - about fornication Chapter 16 - about the one who had a desire to commit fornication, but did not bring his desire into action Chapter 17 - about the keepers of harlots Chapter 18 - about the privileges and advantages that bishops and Churches have, and about their areas Chapter 19 - about the rights that presbyters have Chapter 20 - about dowries Chapter 21 - about traitors Beginning of the letter R Chapter 1st - about husbands and wives in an involuntary expiration Beginning of the letter S Chapter 1st - about not fasting on Saturdays Chapter 2nd - about shameful ones Chapter 3rd - about that the cross should not be depicted on the ground, but the depicted crosses should be scattered Chapter 4 - on contracts and conditions Chapter 5- about feasts Chapter 6 - about those who withdraw from sacred assemblies Chapter 7 - about clerics who have brought wives Chapter 8 - about those who touch the sins of clerics and do not confess (them) Chapter 9 - about the councils that take place annually Chapter 10 - about letters of representation Chapter 11 - about those who commit conspiracies (conspiracies), gatherings, or uprisings Chapter 12 - about schismatics The beginning of the letter T Chapter 1 - about the rank clergy Chapter 2 - about burial Chapter 3 - about the fact that it is not permissible either to baptize the dead, or to give communion to their bodies Chapter 4 - about the children of clerics Chapter 5 - about the holy fortecost and the customs observed in it. - Why is the Divine Liturgy celebrated for the most part at the third hour of the day, and sometimes - on the great Feasts - in the eve? - Why is the forty day called the fortification of the whole year, and for what reasons does everything that takes place in it happen? - Why is the remembrance of the departed not performed during the forty days, except on Saturdays? - Why are marriages and some other such celebrations not celebrated on Fortecost? - About the miracle performed by Saint Theodore (Tyron) by means of a koliva. - Why do we commemorate all those who died in the faith and the holy fathers before the fortecost? - Why is the memory of all the saints celebrated after Pentecost? Chapter 6 - about fasting on Wednesday Chapter 7 - about the fact that it is forbidden for any cleric to take interest, and about interest Chapter 8 - about the Trisagion Song Chapter 9 - about the fact that the hair on the head should not decorate Chapter 10 - about grave diggers Chapter 11 - about not being allowed to beat clerics Beginning of the letter U Chapter 1 - about insults Chapter 2 - about hydroparastats - heretics Chapter 3 - about adoption Chapter 4 - of ministers or subdeacons Chapter 5 - of gifts on the occasion of marriage The beginning of the letter F Chapter 1 - on Falcidia Chapter 2 - on poisoners Chapter 3 - on the corruption of virgins Chapter 4 - on the love of money Chapter 5 - on voluntary and involuntary murders Chapter 6 - on suicides Chapter 7 - about the murders in the war and about those who kill robbers Chapter 8 - about women who kill the fetus conceived in the womb with poison. - Of involuntary murders and of babies sleeping by their parents Chapter 9 - of what amulets should not do Chapter 10 - of those sentenced to imprisonment Beginning of letter C Chapter 1 - how the election of ordained (in) bishops takes place and about the contradiction that occurs with them Chapter 2 - that the election of ordained should not be made either by secular rulers or by the people Chapter 3 - about the period during which bishops must be ordained Chapter 4 - what should be the ordained bishops and what they should know first of all Chapter 5 - how many bishops ordain bishops and other clerics Chapter 6 - that he who has to be ordained a bishop must first be separated from his wife Chapter 7 - About the Age of Ordained Chapter 8- that a dying bishop should not appoint another in his place Chapter 9 - that one should not first appoint someone to be a bishop, or a presbyter, or a deacon, unless he makes everyone in his house Christians Chapter 10 -i - that one should not suddenly ordain a layman or a newly enlightened bishop, and for what reasons a cleric is deprived of the priesthood Chapter 11 - when a eunuch or otherwise damaged in the body is ordained a bishop or cleric Chapter 12 - about how that a bishop should not be ordained in a church whose bishop is still alive Chapter 13 - that a bishop should not be ordained in a small town or village Chapter 14- about the ordination of chorepiscops Chapter 15 - about a bishop who, after ordination, does not want to go to the church assigned to him Chapter 16 - about the fact that a bishop should not perform consecrations in dioceses that are not subordinate to him Chapter 17 - about how that a bishop is not allowed to ordain a clergyman of another diocese Chapter 18th - which of the bishops is given the right to receive foreign clerics and ordain in churches subordinate to them Chapter 19th - that one who is ordained to the clergy is one who comes from and not from a priestly family Chapter 20th - when slaves are ordained Chapter 21 - about the production of readers Chapter 22 - about the fact that clergy were not ordained out of the blue Chapter 23 - about what is ordained and the one who, being in a state of proclamation, before baptism sacrificed to idolatry Chapter 24 - about the fact that there should be no re-ordinations Chapter 25 - about who is guilty of sins and ordained Chapter 26th - about what should not ordain one who is enlightened by baptism in illness Chapter 27th - about those who take an oath not to accept ordination Chapter 28th - about those who are ordained for money. - About the fee and about what is given for ordination Chapter 29 - about widowed wives Chapter 30 - about those who mock at the sickly Chapter 31- about holy chrism and about which of the heretics who come to the Church are only chrismated Chapter 32 - about Christianity Chapter 33 - about chorepiscopes Beginning of the letter Y Chapter 1 - how to sing and pray Chapter 2 - about singers and reciters Chapter 3 - about the fact that heretical false martyrs should not depart Chapter 4 - how the election of those who accept ordination takes place The beginning of the letter W Chapter 1 - about who should wear an orarion
