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Council of Sardica (343)
Local councils, NPNF II.14
(Of the Latin.)
[After Canon XIV.] · Canon XVIII. (Of the Latin.)
Bishop Januarius said: Let your holiness also decree this, that no bishop be allowed to try to gain for himself a minister in the church of a bishop of another city and ordain him to one of his own parishes.
All said: Such is our pleasure, inasmuch as discord is apt to spring from contentions in this matter, and therefore the sentence of us all forbids anyone to presume to do