The Synod of Neo-Caesarea was a church

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held in

Neocaesarea Niksar, historically known as Neocaesarea (Νεοκαισάρεια), is a city in Tokat Province, Turkey. It was settled by many empires, being once the capital city of the province. Niksar is known as " Çukurova of the North-Anatolia" due to i ...

, Pontus, shortly after the

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, probably about 314 or 315 (although Hefele inclines to put it somewhat later). Its principal work was the adoption of fifteen disciplinary canons, which were subsequently accepted as

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by the

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, 451, and of which the most important are the following: :i. degrading priests who marry after ordination :vii. forbidding a priest to be present at the second marriage of any one :viii. refusing ordination to the husband of an adulteress (and if she commit adultery after his ordination, he must put her away) :xi. fixing thirty years as the age below which one might not be ordained (because

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began His public ministry at the age of thirty) :xiii. affording to city priests the precedence over country priests :xiv. permitting

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to celebrate the sacraments :xv. requiring that there be seven

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s in every city.

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* {{1911, wstitle=Neo-Caesarea, Synod of This work in turn cites Mansi ii. pp. 539–551; Hardouin i. pp. 282–286; Hefele (2nd ed.) i. pp. 242–251 (Eng. trans. i. pp. 222–230).

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