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First Council of Nicaea (325)

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9. Canon 9

If any presbyters have been advanced without examination, or if upon examination they have made confession of crime, and men acting in violation of the canon have laid hands upon them, notwithstanding their confession, such the canon does not admit; for the Catholic Church requires that [only] which is blameless.

Notes · Ancient Epitome of Canon IX

Whoever are ordained without examination, shall be deposed if it be found out afterwards that they had been guilty.

Balsamon

Some say that as baptism makes the baptized person a new man, so ordination takes away the sins committed before ordination, which opinion does not seem to agree with the canons.

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