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(prohibits praying with an excommunicated person)
CANON 10. If any one shall pray, even in a private house, with an excommunicated person, let him also be excommunicated.
(prohibits praying with a deposed clergyman)
CANON 11. If any clergyman shall join in prayer with a deposed clergyman, as if he were a clergyman, let him also be deposed.
(prohibits bishop from divorcing)
CANON 5. Let not a bishop, presbyter, or deacon, put away his wife under pretence of religion; but if he put her away, let him be excommunicated; and if he persists, let him be deposed.
(prohibits bishop from getting married with divorced woman and some others)
CANON 18. He who married a widow, or a divorced woman, or an harlot, or a servant-maid, or an actress, cannot be a bishop, presbyter, or deacon, or any other of the sacerdotal list.
(leaving private goods of the bishop for his family after death...)
CANON 40. Let the private goods of the bishop, if he have any such, and those of the Lord, be clearly distinguished, that the bishop may have the power of leaving his own goods, when he dies, to whom he will, and how he will, and that the bishop's own property may not be lost under pretence of its being the property of the Church: for it may be that he has a wife, or children, or relations, or servants; and it is just before God and man, that neither should the Church suffer any loss through ignorance of the bishop's own property, nor the bishop or his relations be injured under pretext of the Church: nor that those who belong to him should be involved in contests, and cast reproaches upon his death.
( if any bishop abstains from marriage)
CANON 51. If any bishop, presbyter, or deacon, or any one of the sacerdotal list, abstains from marriage, or flesh, or wine, not by way of religious restraint, but as abhorring them, forgetting that God made all things very good, and that he made man male and female, and blaspheming the work of creation, let him be corrected, or else be deposed, and cast out of the Church. In like manner a layman.
( a bishop must not ordain his son to the episcopal dignity)
CANON 76. A bishop must not, out of favour to a brother or a son, or any other relation, ordain whom he will to the episcopal dignity; for it is not right to make heirs of the bishopric, giving the things of God to human affections. Neither is it fitting to subject the Church of God to heirs. But if anyone shall do so let the ordination be void, and the ordainer himself be punished with excommunication.
NICE, THE SEVENTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
(Chorepiscopi is permitted to ordain a reader with the bishop's authorization)
CANON 14. ... It is permitted to each hegumenos in his own monastery to ordain a reader, if he himself had received the laying on of hands by a bishop to the dignity of hegumenos, and is known to be a presbyter. Chorepiscopi may likewise, according to ancient custom and with the bishop's authorization, appoint readers.
It is stated as well in (Canons of St. Basil the Great, 89; Antioch.-10, Ancyr.-13.)
CONSTANTINOPLE SIXTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
(According to the church canons the UAOC of the second formation comes back to homeland after 60 years of persecutions)
CANON 18. Clergymen who on the pretext of an incursion of barbarians, or as a result of any other circumstance, have emigrated, whenever their exigency has ceased, or the incursions of barbarians, on account of which they made their departure, are commanded to return to their own churches, and not to stay away from them for a long time without a good excuse. If anyone fails to conduct himself agreeably to the present Canon, let him be excommunicated until he returns to his own church. Let this same rule apply also to the Bishop who is keeping him.
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