He was liberal to the papacy, and was greatly influenced by the eminent clerics with whom he eagerly associated.
They had to be clerics, that is, to have received the tonsure.
Worthy of special note are canon 33, enjoining celibacy upon all clerics and all who minister at the altar (the most ancient canon of celibacy); canon 36, forbidding pictures in churches; canon 38, permitting lay baptism under certain conditions; and canon 53, forbidding one bishop to restore a person excommunicated by another.
The fifth canon provides that those, whether clerics or laymen, who are cut off from communion in any particular province are not to be admitted thereto elsewhere.
Episcopis, &c., subjected clerics for small offences pertaining to the observances of religion to bishops and synods.