:Iar dacă vreun cleric are pricină (litigiu) cu episcopul său propriu sau și cu un alt episcop, să se judece de către sinodul eparhiei (mitropoliei). Iar dacă un cleric ar avea neînțelegere cu mitropolitul aceleiași eparhii (mitropolii), să fie luat (solicitat judecător) exarhul diecezei sau scaunul împărăteștii cetăți a Constantinopolului și de către acesta să se judece. <ref> Ioan D. Floca, ''Canoanele Bisericii Ortodoxe. Note și comentarii'', s.ed., Sibiu, 2005, pp. 90-91.</ref>
StSf. [[Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain|Nicodemos of the Holy MountainNicodim Aghioritul]] comments on the meaning of this comentează astfel sensul acestui canon::So it is Astfel, e evident that the că acest Canon means that if any bishop or clergyman has a dispute or difference with the Metropolitan of an exarchyînseamnă că orice episcop sau cleric care are o dispută sau un diferend cu mitropolitul unui exarhat, let him apply to the Exarch of the diocesesă facă apel la exarhul diecezei; which is the same thing as saying that clergymen and metropolitans subject to the throne of Constantinople must have their case tried either before the Exarch of the diocese in which they are situatedceea ce e același lucru cu a zice că mitropoliții și clericii supuși scaunului de Constantinopol trebuie să fie judecați fie dinaintea exarhului diecezei în care se găsesc sau înaintea Episcopului de Constantinopol, or before the Bishop of Constantinople, as before a Patriarch of their ownfie înaintea patriarhului lor. It did not say that if any clergyman has a dispute or difference with the Metropolitan of any diocese or parish whatever[Canonul] Nu spune că orice cleric are o dispută sau un diferend cu mitropolit din orice altă dieceză sau parohie, they must be tried before the Bishop of Constantinopletrebuie să fie judecați de Episcopul de Constantinopol... That is why De aceea și Zonaras too says that the Bishop of Constantinople is not necessarily entitled to sit as judge over all Metropolitanszice că Episcopul de Constantinopol nu are neapărat dreptul să fie judecător deasupra tuturor mitropoliților, but ci (onlydoar) over those who are judicially subject to him asupra celor care se află sub jurisdicția sa canonică (interpretation of c. XVII of the present 4th C.interpretarea Canonului 17 de la Calcedon). And in his interpretation of c. V of Iar în interpretarea pe care o dă Canonului 5 de la Sardica the same authority says, aceeași autoritate spune: "The Bishop of Constantinople must hear the appeals only of those who are subject to the Bishop of ConstantinopleEpiscopul de Constantinopol trebuie să primească doar apelurile celor care sunt sub ascultarea Episcopului de Constantinopol, precisely as the Bishop of Rome must hear the appeals only of those who are subject to the Bishop of Romeașa cum și Episcopul Romei trebuie să primească doar apelurile celor care se află sub ascultarea Episcopului Romei"."<ref>(D. Cummings, trans., ''The Rudder of the Orthodox Catholic Church: The Compilation of the Holy Canons Saints Nicodemus and Agapius'' (West Brookfield, MA: The Orthodox Christian Educational Society, 1983), p. 255).</ref>
If one does not read the canon as StDacă nu înțelegem canonul așa cum propune Sf. Nicodemos suggestsNicodim, it is possible to conclude that Constantinople could even overrule Romeam putea trage chiar concluzia că [acum] Constantinopolul ar fi putut răsturna o decizie a Romei, something that the pre-ceea ce nici [[Biserica Romei]] de dinainte de [[Great SchismMarea Schismă|SchismSchismă]] Roman church would never have accepted, nor is it likely that any other patriarchate of that time would have eitherși probabil nici celelalte patriarhate nu ar fi acceptat niciodată. Within the context of the principle that Constantinople should have În contextul stabilirii principiului conform căruia Constantinopolul primea "equal prerogativesprerogative egale" to Old Romecu Vechea Romă, acest lucru a fost interpretat în sensul că, howeverașa cum era Roma în Occident, this has been interpreted to mean that Constantinople may be the highest court of appeal in the East as Rome was in the Westtot astfel și Constantinopolul ar putea fi cea mai înaltă curte de apel în Răsărit.
===Jurisdiction Jurisdicția in "Barbarian Landsteritoriile barbare"===Canon Canonul 28 of Chalcedon readsde la Calcedon spune:
:Everywhere following the decrees of the Holy Fathers, and aware of the recently recognized Canon of the one hundred and fifty most God-beloved Bishops who convened during the reign of Theodosius the Great of pious memory, who became emperor in the imperial city of Constantinople otherwise known as New Rome; we too decree and vote the same things in regard to the privileges and priorities of the most holy Church of that same Constantinople and New Rome. And this is in keeping with the fact that the Fathers naturally enough granted the priorities to the throne of Old Rome on account of her being the imperial capital. And motivated by the same object and aim the one hundred and fifty most God-beloved Bishops have accorded the like priorities to the most holy throne of New Rome, with good reason deeming that the city which is the seat of an empire, and of a senate, and is equal to old imperial Rome in respect of other privileges and priorities, should be magnified also as she is in respect of ecclesiastical affairs, as coming next after her, or as being second to her. And it is arranged so that only the Metropolitans of the Pontic, Asian, and Thracian dioceses shall be ordained by the most holy throne of the most holy Church of Constantinople aforesaid, and likewise the Bishops of the aforesaid dioceses which are situated in barbarian lands; that is to say, that each Metropolitan of the aforesaid dioceses, together with the Bishops of the province, shall ordain the Bishops of the province, just as is prescribed try the divine Canons. But the Metropolitans of the aforesaid dioceses, as has been said, are to be ordained by the Archbishop of Constantinople, after the elections have first been conducted in accordance with custom, and have been reported to him.<ref>(D. Cummings, trans., ''The Rudder of the Orthodox Catholic Church: The Compilation of the Holy Canons Saints Nicodemus and Agapius'' (West Brookfield, MA: The Orthodox Christian Educational Society, 1983), p. 271-276)</ref>