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Council in Trullo (692)

Ecumenical councils, NPNF II.14

67. Canon 67

The divine Scripture commands us to abstain from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication. Those therefore who on account of a dainty stomach prepare by any art for food the blood of any animal, and so eat it, we punish suitably. If anyone henceforth venture to eat in any way the blood of an animal, if he be a clergyman, let him be deposed; if a layman, let him be cut off.

Notes · Ancient Epitome of Canon LXVII

A cleric eating blood shall be deposed, but a layman shall be cut off.