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Code of Canons of the African Church (Carthage, 419)
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29. Canon 29
Canon XXIX. (Greek xxxii.)
If anyone who is excommunicated shall receive communion before his cause is heard he brings damnation on himself.1
Likewise it pleased the whole Council that he who shall have been excommunicated for any neglect, whether he be bishop, or any other cleric, and shall have presumed while still under sentence, and his cause not yet heard, to receive communion, he shall be considered by so doing to have given sentence against himself.
Notes · Ancient Epitome of Canon XXIX
One excommunicate who shall communicate before absolution sentences himself.
Notes
- Not found in the Greek of Beveridge.