Synod of Hippo - Citizendia

The Synod of Hippo refers to the synod of 393 A. A synod (also known as a council) is a council of a church, usually a Christian church convened to decide an issue of doctrine administration or application D. which was hosted in Hippo Regius in northern Africa during the early Christian Church. Hippo Regius is the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba (formerly Bône Algeria. North Africa or Northern Africa is the Northernmost Region of the African Continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Early Christianity is commonly defined as the Christianity of the three centuries between the Crucifixion of Jesus ( c Additional synods were held in 394, 397, 401 and 426.

Some were attended by St. Augustine. The synod of 393 is most known for two distinct acts. First, for the first time a council of bishops listed and approved a canon of Sacred Scripture that corresponds to the modern Roman Catholic canon, including the deuterocanonical books classed by Protestants as "Apocrypha". A Biblical canon or canon of scripture is a list or Set of Biblical books considered to be authoritative as Scripture by a particular religious Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin " Deuterocanonical books " is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages The biblical apocrypha (from the Greek word ἀπόκρυφος meaning hidden) are books published in an edition of the Bible whose canonicity The canon was later approved at the Council of Carthage pending the ratification of the "Church across the sea". Synods of Carthage During the 3rd 4th and 5th centuries the town of Carthage in Africa served as the meeting-place of a large number of church synods of which however only The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent Episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Previous councils had approved of similar, but slightly different canons. Second, the council reaffirmed the apostolic origin of the requirement of clerical continence and reasserted it as a requirement for all the ordained. Ius or jus is Latin for one sense of the English word law In the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, ius refers to custom practice Sexual continence is a lifestyle in which one refrains from all sexual contact even while married

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