Set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority
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Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches), the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the individual national churches within the Anglican Communion.[1] The way that such church law is legislated, interpreted and at times adjudicated varies widely among these four bodies of churches. In all three traditions, a canon was originally[2] a rule adopted by a church council; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.
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Canonlaw (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...
The canonlaw of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical...
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The 1983 Code of CanonLaw (abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, is the "fundamental...
history of Catholic canonlaw, the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West. Canonlaw originates much later than Roman law but predates the...
Licentiate of CanonLaw (Latin: Juris Canonici Licentiatus; JCL) is the title of an advanced graduate degree with canonical effects in the Roman Catholic...
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their own laws. Civil law codifications based closely on Roman law, alongside some influences from religious laws such as canonlaw, continued to spread...
The 1917 Code of CanonLaw (abbreviated 1917 CIC, from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also referred to as the Pio-Benedictine Code, is the first...
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confessor the faculty to absolve censures and penalties of 1917 Code of CanonLaw'scanon 2335 incurred by penitents who completely separated themselves from...
Canon 42 Catholic Church CanonLaw. Retrieved 9 March 2008. Canon 375 Archived 19 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Catholic Church CanonLaw. Retrieved...
public officers or employees.[citation needed] Under Roman civil law, which the early canonlaw of the Catholic Church followed, couples were forbidden to marry...
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law in the Byzantine Empire, bringing it together into codified documents. Civil law was also partly influenced by religious laws such as Canonlaw and...
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