The Apostolic Canons
Section 4
Canon III. A bishop or an elder or a deacon shall not reject his wife under the pretext of a service of the Lord. But if they have rejected [her], let them be separated [from the church]; and if they do not return them and bring them back, let them be deposed.
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Text. George H. Schodde, Journal of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1885. Public domain by age. Schodde's English of the Ge'ez Apostolic Canons, recovered from the scan by the word coordinates. His roman numbering is the one printed; two of his headings did not survive the scan and their canons read on inside the canon before them. Not audited.