In historical use by: Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox (broader canon) — One of the four books of the Ethiopic Sinodos, a collection of church orders that belongs to the Ethiopian broader canon. The Sinodos is the Ethiopic form of an Egyptian collection (the Alexandrine Sinodos, or Clementine Heptateuch) that also survives in Coptic and Arabic. A church-order text, not scripture in kind.
Presented as canons decreed by the apostles; actual author unknown. The Greek Apostolic Canons, which close the Apostolic Constitutions, are an anonymous Syrian church-law compilation of about AD 380; this is the Ethiopic form, one of the four books of the Ethiopic Sinodos, in 57 canons (Schodde's 1883 translation). Rules for the ordination of bishops, elders, and deacons, the conduct of the clergy, offerings, fasting, church property, and discipline. A church-order text, not scripture in kind: it is part of the Ethiopian Orthodox broader canon (a broader-canon book counted as authoritative for church life).