Section 539
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COUNCIL OF NICE. 57 Wherever therefore, they alone may be found ordained, whether in villages or cities, they shall remain in the same order, to which they had been admitted. But if any of them come to a place where there is a bishop or a presbyter of the Catholic Church, it is evident that the bishop of the Catholic Church, shall have the episcopal dignity. But he who is called a bishop by the Cathari, shall have the rank of a presbyter, unless it shall seem fit to the bishop to share with him the honor of the title ; but if otherwise, he shall provide for him the place of a country bishop, (xwpemaKoTrovJ or of a presbyter, that he may by all means appear to be in the number of the clergy, and that there may not be two bishops in one city. CANON XIII. — Of those who solicit Communion at the point of death, Concerning those who depart this life, the ancient and ecclesi astical law shall now also be observed, that if any one is about to expire, he may not be deprived of the viaticum of the Lord. But if, in despair of life, having received the communion, and par taken of the offering, he be again numbered with the living, let him be placed with those who participate in prayer only. By all means, however, let the bishop impart the offering to every one, on examination, who desires, at the point of death, to partake of the eucharist. CANON XT. — Of the inexpediency of removiny from one city to another. On account of the frequent tumults and seditions which arise, it is decreed, that the custom which exists in some parts, contrary to the canon, be entirely taken away ; so that no b;shop, priest or