Kanon

Kanon

is one of the names by which the official list or register of the Church is known. It is also frequently spoken of as κατάλογος ἱερατικός , list of the priesthood, and hence spiritual persons were denominated κανονικοί, canonici, and οἱ τοῦ κανόνος , men of the canon, because their names were entered in the list. The word κανών had also other significations. The assent of the catechumens to a summary of the leading articles of the Christian faith was required, and this creed was variously designated; sometimes κανών, the rule, sometimes πίστις , the faith, and symbolum, a badge or token (see Riddle, Christian Antiquities, s. y.). (See Canon).