Quinisext Council (Council in Trullo)

Called “Quinisext” (fifth-sixth) because it supplied disciplinary legislation for the fifth and sixth councils, which had issued no canons. It enacted 102 canons and confirmed earlier collections (including the 85 Apostolic Canons and the councils of Carthage). It allowed presbyters and deacons married before ordination to continue living with their wives (canon 13), required bishops to be celibate (canon 12), renewed Constantinople's rank (canon 36) and criticized some Roman customs, such as fasting on Saturdays (canon 55).

Convoked by

Emperor Justinian II

Canons

102

The Eastern Orthodox Church regards its canons as part of the sixth ecumenical council and of ecumenical authority. The Catholic Church does not count it as ecumenical; Rome never accepted it as a whole.