The third council of national stature, or third Council of Orléans, was a

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of the

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Bishops of

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. It opened around 7 May 538 and was presided over by Loup,

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. It established mainly: * Sunday as day of the Lord; * forbids field work on Sundays; * forbids clerics to practice

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; * prohibition of the conjuring of priests, as a critic of their bishop (canon 24, recall of canon 18 of the

Council of Chalcedon The Council of Chalcedon (; la, Concilium Chalcedonense), ''Synodos tēs Chalkēdonos'' was the fourth ecumenical council of the Christian Church. It was convoked by the Roman emperor Marcian. The council convened in the city of Chalcedon, Bith ...

, 451). * The bishop must redeem a Christian slave in the service of a Jew if he takes refuge in the church, while the constitutions of the Lower Roman Empire demanded to return them to their master, without further guarantees.W. Parker et B. Blumenkranz, ''Les esclaves chrétiens des Juifs. Troisième concile d'Orléans (538)'', Archives juives de Paris, vol. 21, nos 1-2, 1985, p. 3-4 A conciliabule, of which we do not know the subject, took place in Orleans in 540.

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