Canons of the Council in Trullo
The 102 disciplinary canons issued by a council of Eastern bishops in the domed hall (trullus) of the palace at Constantinople in 692. The Orthodox churches count them as canons of the fifth and sixth ecumenical councils; Rome did not accept them as a whole.
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The fifth and sixth ecumenical councils, of 553 and 680–681, issued no canons. The emperor Justinian II called this council to supply them, which is why it is also called the Quinisext, the “fifth-sixth”. Its canons gather and renew earlier legislation and add rulings on clergy, monks, marriage and worship.
The West was not represented, and Pope Sergius I refused to sign the canons when they were sent to him. Canon 36 renews the ruling of Constantinople in 381 and of Chalcedon in 451 that the see of Constantinople has equal privileges with that of Rome and ranks second after it, followed by Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. The canons are evidence for the law of the Eastern churches at the end of the seventh century and for how those churches read the earlier councils.
Cited in
- October AD 451, firm date
- AD 680 to AD 681, firm date