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:""A spiritual father, if he reveals to anyone a sin of one who had confessed receives a penance: he shall be suspended [from serving] for three years, being able to receive Communion only once a month, and must do 100 prostrations every day."<ref>translated by Fr. Alexander Lebedeff from the [http://www.synaxis.info/synaxis/8_law/f_byzantine/nomokanon.html Slavonic text]</ref>
==Service Order for Confession==
Both Slavic and Greek texts point to Patriarch [[John IV of Constantinople]], also known as '''John the Faster''', as the compiler of the service order for Confession.
==General Confession==