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The Apostolic Canons,[1] also called Apostolic canons[2] (Latin: Canones apostolorum,[3] "Canons of the Apostles"), Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles,[4] or Canons of the Holy Apostles,[5][6] is a 4th-century Syrian Christian text. It is an Ancient Church Order, a collection of ancient ecclesiastical canons concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, allegedly written by the Apostles.[7][8] This text is an appendix to the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions.[7][9] Like the other Ancient Church Orders, the Apostolic Canons uses a pseudepigraphic form.
These eighty-five canons were approved by the Council in Trullo in 692 but were rejected by Pope Sergius I. In the Western Church only fifty of these canons circulated, translated in Latin by Dionysius Exiguus in about 500 AD, and included in the Western collections and afterwards in the Corpus Juris Canonici.
The document contains a list of canonical books.
^Shahan, Thomas Joseph (1908). "Apostolic Canons" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3.
^Hartmann, Wilfried; Pennington, Kenneth, eds. (2012). The history of Byzantine and Eastern canon law to 1500. History of Medieval canon law, 4. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8132-1947-9. OCLC 815276580.
^"Carolingian Canon Law Project". ccl.rch.uky.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
^"THE ECCLESIASTICAL CANONS OF THE SAME HOLY APOSTLES". Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries. Vol. VII. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^Vasile, Mihai (2017). "Introduction". Orthodox canon law reference book. Brookline, Massachusetts: Holy Cross Orthodox Press. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-1-935317-45-6. OCLC 856076162.
^Viscuso, Patrick (2007) [2006]. Orthodox canon law: a casebook for study (2nd ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: InterOrthodox Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-935317-16-6.
^ abThe Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium : in 3 vol. / ed. by Dr. Alexander Kazhdan. — N. Y. ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991. — 2232 p. — ISBN 0-19-504652-8. — T. 1, P. 141
^Canons, Apostolic, 1910 New Catholic Dictionary, accessed 16 April 2016.
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biblical canons, although the majority of manuscripts are shared in common. Different religious groups include different books in their biblical canons, in...
canons were later approved by the Eastern Council in Trullo in 692 but rejected by Pope Constantine. In the Latin Church only fifty of these canons circulated...
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more houses of canons than monasteries of any order of monks or friars. All canons regular are to be distinguished from secular canons who belong to a...
2008-05-26. "Catholic Encyclopedia: ApostolicCanons". New Advent. Retrieved 2008-05-26. "The Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles". Ante-Nicene...
the well-known commentator on the canons of the Middle Ages, in his commentary on the sixty-third ApostolicCanon, expressly blames the Latins because...
Second ApostolicCanons, which share a common source—the Apostolic Constitutions—with certain parts of the Orthodox Tewahedo New Testament broader canon.[citation...
Festal Letter of Athanasius (367). The ApostolicCanons (or Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles, Canons of the Apostles) is a collection of ancient...
Retrieved 8 July 2018. "Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio Mitis et misericors Iesus by which the canons of the Code of Canons of Eastern Churches pertaining...
canons (750 and 1371) of the 1983 Code of Canon Law and also two canons (598 and 1436) of the 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, so as to add "new...
1953, pp. 25–26, 75. See 3 Maccabees 6:18. Council in Trullo. The ApostolicCanons. Canon 85. newadvent. Retrieved 12 October 2016. Hadas, Moses (1953)....
Brief Survey (6th edition). Canon 53, 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Canon 58, Ibid Canon 151, 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches "Syro...
newadvent.org. Retrieved 8 February 2019. Council in Trullo. The ApostolicCanons. Canon 85. newadvent. Retrieved 12 October 2016. "Eccumenical Council...
for the first time on 1 October 1991 (Apostolic Constitution Sacri Canones of 18 October 1990). The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, as it is called...
promulgation of the 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, which took effect in 1991. It is a framework document that contains canons that are a consequence...
classed as a particular Church, according to canon 371.1 of the Latin Code of Canon Law, a vicar apostolic's jurisdiction is an exercise of the jurisdiction...
Other forms include territorial abbacies, apostolic vicariates and apostolic prefectures. The 1983 Code of Canon Law states: "Particular Churches, in which...
Council of Carthage (A.D. 419)". New Advent. in Trullo, Council. The ApostolicCanons. Canon 85. newadvent. Retrieved 12 October 2016. Lohse 1988, pp. 322,...
Inc. p. 272. Schaff, Philip; Wace, Henry, eds. (1905). "The ApostolicalCanons: Canon LXXXV". A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Second...
cord. Some canons wear their cross on a ribbon, but only a bishop may wear the cross on a cord. Under new regulations, neither bishops nor canons wear fur-trimmed...
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