Canons of the Council of Turin

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1. 0The synodal letter of the council of Turin to the bishops of Gaul introduces its judgments on the disputes brought before it.
2. 1Proculus of Marseilles is granted, for his lifetime only, primacy over the churches of Second Narbonensis that he founded or whose bishops he ordained.
3. 2The dispute between Arles and Vienne over primacy is to go to whichever proves its city the metropolis; meanwhile each may oversee the churches nearer to it.
4. 3Bishops who irregularly ordained other bishops are pardoned this time, but future irregular ordinations will cost the ordained his office and the ordainer his authority.
5. 4The layman Palladius remains under Bishop Triferius's sentence for accusing the presbyter Spanus, but Triferius may release him.
6. 5The presbyter Exuperantius, excommunicated for insulting his bishop Triferius, is to be restored only at Triferius's discretion.
7. 6Gallic bishops in communion with Felix of Trier may be received if they break with him, as the letters of Ambrose and the Roman bishop direct.
8. 7No bishop may receive or ordain another bishop's cleric, or admit to communion one excommunicated.
9. 8Clergy ordained against the prohibition, or who have fathered children while in the ministry, are not to be promoted to higher orders.