Canons of the Church of Alexandria

Anonymous Egyptian compiler

Canon 7

About this work

A collection of ecclesial rules associated with the Egyptian church-order tradition, addressing ministry, worship, discipline, community offices, and practical ordering of Christian life in late antiquity.

Author
Anonymous Egyptian compiler
Traditional attribution
Hippolytus of Rome
Date
Date uncertain; composite church-order tradition
Origin
Egypt
Genre
Church Order

Title, textual boundaries, source layers, and relationship to other church orders require specialist examination.

Canon Seventh. Of him who is elected reader and sub-deacon.