According to Brewer, acephalites were also certain bishops exempt from the jurisdiction and discipline of their patriarch. Cooper explains that they are "priests rejecting episcopal authority or bishops that of their metropolitans." Blunt described '''' as those clergy who were ordained with a sinecure benefice and who generally obtained their orders by paying for them, that is, by simony. The Council of Pavia, in 853, legislated its canons 18 and 23 against them, from which it appears, according to Blunt, that they were mostly chaplains to noblemen, that they produced much scandal in the Church, and that they disseminated many errors.
According to Brewer acephalites were also certain bishops exempt from the jurisdiction and discipline of their patriarch Cooper explains that they are "priests rejecting episcopal authority or bishops that of their metropolitans" Blunt described '''' as those clergy who were ordained with a sinecure benefice and who generally obtained their orders by paying for them that is by simony The Council of Pavia in 853 legislated its canons 18 and 23 against them from which it appears according to Blunt that they were mostly chaplains to noblemen that they produced much scandal in the Church and that they disseminated many errors