Council of Vaison

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A small council in Provence, sitting a year after Orange, left canons on chrism, on clergy who desert their own bishop, and — the one that outlived the rest — a procedure for those who take up foundlings: the finder was to declare the child publicly at the church, and anyone reclaiming it later without proof was to be held as a murderer. Ordinary administration from a church that was quietly taking over the state's work.

The Council of Vaison refers to two separate synods consisting of officials and theologians of the Catholic Church which were held in or near to the Avignon commune of Vaison, France. The first was held in 442 and the second in 529.

Practical order for a Gallic province — and what becomes of a child abandoned at a church door.

Ten canons of provincial housekeeping, one of which is still quoted.

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