Antimension during celebration of the Liturgy by a bishop

[Fyodor Vaskovsky]

Right Reverend Fathers, Brothers and Sisters,

I have a problem. Does anyone know, by canonical law, whether it is possible for a Bishop to celebrate the Liturgy just in a house, without an antimension? It is just because I am translating a book about persecutions of Christians in the Soviet era, but I cannot find the answer to this question anywhere...

In Christ,
Fyodor

[Fr Raphael Vereshack]

Right Reverend Fathers, Brothers and Sisters,

I have a problem. Does anyone know, by canonical law, whether it is possible for a Bishop to celebrate the Liturgy just in a house, without an antimension? It is just because I am translating a book about persecutions of Christians in the Soviet era, but I cannot find the answer to this question anywhere...

In Christ,
Fyodor

To serve the Liturgy- wherever this may be- there must be an antimension.

The only exceptions to this I have ever heard of were in the prison camps in communist Romania the Liturgy was served on the living body of a believing inmate instead.

However this still essentially follows the rule about the antimension: the antimension has a relic in it and the prisoner was considered a sort of relic.

In Christ- Fr Raphael