Section 540
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5S COUNCIL OF NICE. deacon, be permitted to migrate from one city to another. If any one after this determination of the holy synod, shall attempt any such thing, or shall engage in a business of this nature, such a proceeding shall be rendered altogether void, and he shall be re stored to the church of which he has been ordained bishop, priest or deacon. CANON XVI. — Of those who do not remain in the churches to which they have been appointed. Whoever, not having the fear of God before their eyes, and disregarding the ecclesiastical canon, shall rashly withdraw from the church, whether they be priests or deacons, or in any other ecclesiastical order, such persons ought by no means to be received by any other church, but should be compelled to return to their own parishes ; and those who are obstinate, should be deprived of the communion. If any clergyman should presume to invade wheh; belongs to another, and be ordained in his church, without the consent of the bishop from whom he had withdrawn, such ordination shall be null and void. CANON XVIII. — Of presbyters receiving the eucharist from deacons. It having come to the knowledge of the great and holy coun cil, that in certain places and cities, the eucharist is administered by deacons to presbyters, and neither law nor custom permitting that those who have no authority to offer the body of Christ should deliver it to those who have ; and it being also understood, that some deacons receive the eucharist before even the bishops, let therefore all these irregularities be removed, and let the dea cons remain within their own limits, knowing that they are