[8] Likewise, it reprobated, with similar penalties, the Latin custom of not allowing married individuals to be ordained to the diaconate or priesthood unless they vowed for perpetual continence and living separately from their wives,[9] and fasting on Saturdays of Lent.

[9] Without contrasting with the practice of the Western Church, it also prescribed that the celebration of the Eucharist in Lent should only happen in Saturdays, Sundays, and the feast of the Annunciation.

It enjoined those in holy orders from entering public houses, engaging in usurious practices, attending horse races in the Hippodrome, wearing unsuitable clothes or celebrating the liturgy in private homes (eukterion) without the consent of their bishops.

[12] Pope Sergius I refused to sign the decrees of the Quinisext Council when they were sent to him, rejecting them as "lacking authority" and describing them as containing "novel errors."

This position was later articulated in the ninth century by Pope John VIII, who stated that he "accepted all those canons which did not contradict the true faith, good morals, and the decrees of Rome."

Nearly a century later, Pope Hadrian I explicitly recognized the Trullan decrees in a letter to Tenasius of Constantinople, attributing them to the Sixth Synod.

He affirmed: "All the holy six synods I receive with all their canons, which rightly and divinely were promulgated by them, among which is contained that in which reference is made to a Lamb being pointed to by the Precursor as being found in certain of the venerable images.