Canons of Hippolytus

The Canons of Hippolytus is a fourth century Christian legal text, dated to between 336 and 340 AD, that originated in Egypt and belongs to the ancient church order genre. It consists of thirty eight decrees presented, most likely falsely, as the work of Hippolytus, bishop of Rome, acting on the instructions of the apostles. The canons set out procedures for selecting and ordaining ministers, rules concerning widows and virgins, requirements for converts from paganism, and procedures for baptism, the Eucharist, fasting, daily prayer, and charity. The text survives only in an Arabic translation made from an earlier Coptic version of the lost Greek original, and was first published with a Latin translation by Daniel Bonifacius von Haneberg in 1870. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/