Ninth Council of Toledo

The bishops promulgated seventeen canons about the honesty of the clergy, the property of the church, and clerical celibacy.

No freed male or female ecclesiastic was allowed to marry a freeman (Hispano-Roman or Visigoth) and if one did, the children of such a union were enslaved to the church.

The council gave a layman the privilege of Jus patronatus for each church he built,[1] but the founder had no proprietary rights.

[2] Finally, the synod declared that all conversos, not only converted Jews also others who had come during the Migration Period, had to pass Christian festivals in the presence of their bishop so as to prove the veracity of their faith.

Lack of compliance with this last rule resulted in flogging or forced fasting, depending on the age of the offender.