Abtilis

Canon 74

Overview

This canon lists physical and spiritual disqualifications for ordination to the episcopate, including blindness, deafness, lameness, mutilation, and possession by an unclean spirit.

1Abṭelis, 84. One should not seek to ordain a bishop who is blind, or deaf, or lame, or mutilated, or who is possessed by an unclean spirit. For he is not able to teach, which is not permitted from the ranks of the angels, and he stands by the command of the church and the command of the priesthood.