The bishops of Visigothic Gaul, under the…

506 CE

The bishops of Visigothic Gaul, under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles, meet in the Council of Agde.

It is attended by thirty-five bishops, and its forty-seven genuine canons deal "with ecclesiastical discipline".

One of its canons (the seventh), forbidding ecclesiastics to sell or alienate the property of the church whence they drew their living, seems to be the earliest indication of the later system of benefices.

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