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Canons of the Apostles and the Fathers, NPNF II.14

Chapter 77

If any one be deprived of an eye, or lame of a leg, but in other respects be worthy of a bishopric, he may be ordained, for the defect of the body does not defile a man, but the pollution of the soul.