Overview of Church Councils and Local Synods laying down rules regarding women

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Overview of ancient Church Councils and Local Synods laying down rules [=‘canons’] regarding women

Read the synopsis on how women were treated in the early Church Orders and Church Canons.

Date Name description
3rd cent. Didascalia Apostolorum socalled ‘Church Order’
248 AD Canons of Dionysius Archbishop of Alexandria
324 Council of Nicea General Church Council
325-381 Local Council of Gangra local synod
363 Synod of Laodicea local synod
329-379 Canons of St. Basil rules of local bishop
ca. 400 AD Apostolic Constitutions
see here Book VIII		 ‘Church Order’
345 - 419 Council of Carthage local synod
441 Synod of Orange local synod
451 Council of Chacedon General Church Council
485 Statuta Ecclesiae Antiqua ‘Church Order’
517 Synod of Epaon local synod
588 Synod of Auxerre local synod
650 Synod of Rouen local synod
680 Canons of Bishop Timothy rules by Archbishop of Alexandria
690 Penitentiary of Theodore rules by Archbishop of Canterbury
692 Council of Trullo General Church Council
787 Council of Nicaea II General Church Council
821 Capitulary of Theodulf rules by Bishop of Orléans
     

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