• Collections of ancient canons contain collected bodies of canon law that originated in various documents, such as papal and synodal decisions, and that...
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    The Apostolic Canons, also called Apostolic canons (Latin: Canones apostolorum, "Canons of the Apostles"), Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles...
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  • Septimus Ancient church orders Didache The Apostolic Constitutions Canons of the Apostles Collections of ancient canons – Overview of ancient Christian...
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  • Fidem, which amended two canons (750 and 1371) of the 1983 Code of Canon Law and two canons (598 and 1436) of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches,...
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  • leges, Latin for laws. The Apostolic Canons or Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles is a collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees (eighty-five...
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  • Eastern Catholic canon law Eastern canonical reforms of Pius XII Collections of ancient canons Canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church Nomocanon Kormchaia...
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    Dionysiana or Dionysiana Collectio ("Dionysian Collection"), are the several collections of ancient canons prepared by a Scythian monk, Dionysius 'the humble'...
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  • Penitential canons are religious rules laid down by councils or bishops concerning the penances to be done for various sins. These canons, collected,...
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  • canon lawyer appointed by Church authorities to argue against the canonization of a candidate. It was this person's job to take a skeptical view of the...
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  • the ancient church orders: the Coptic Canons of Basil (an Egyptian 4th-century text based mainly on the Canons of Hippolytus) and the Western Statuta Eccesiae...
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    Canon (κανών) means a norm or rule; and it is used for various objects, such as the Canon of Holy Scripture, canons of Councils, the official list of...
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  • Law, canon 1370". "Code of Canon Law, canon 1378". "Code of Canon Law, canon 1380". "Code of Canon Law, canon 1383". "Code of Canon Law, canon 1395"...
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  • Doctor of Canon Law (Latin: Juris Canonici Doctor, JCD) is the doctoral-level terminal degree in the studies of canon law of the Roman Catholic Church...
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  • of ministries.: 56  Anti-simony provisions in Church Council canons (and papal bulls) became common: the First Council of Nicaea (325), the Synod of Antioch...
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    of Friars Minor Capuchin Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of Saint John of God founded in 1572 by John of God. Order of the Poor Clerics Secular of the...
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    Code of Canon Law, canon 337 §1-2 Code of Canon Law, canons 337 §3 and 338 Alan Richardson, John Bowden (editors), The Westminster Dictionary of Christian...
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  • subject material of the canons is not just doctrinal or moral in nature, but all-encompassing of the human condition. The canon law of the Catholic Church...
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    received the title of "Collection of Canons". In these, civil laws are often added to the Church regulations. For such collections the Greeks used the...
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  • Buddhist canons, which refers to the various scriptural collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures or the various Buddhist scriptural canons. Some of these...
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    kinds of contracts with, the near relations of public officers or employees.[citation needed] Under Roman civil law, which the early canon law of the Catholic...
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    in the absence of an application by a spouse. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an annulment is properly called a "Declaration of Nullity", because...
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    existing canons in new paragraphs or inserted between canons, repeating the number of the previous canon and adding bis, ter, etc. (e.g. "canon 1567bis"...
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  • like the canons forbidding simony. Some Eastern Orthodox theologians refer to the Eastern Orthodox canons as "holy canons". The canon 2 of the in Trullo...
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  • until in most churches the number of resident canons became definitely limited in number and the non-residentiary canons, who no longer shared in the common...
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  • Look up canon or Canon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Canon or Canons may refer to: Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by...
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    prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (PDF). Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. ISBN 978-88-209-2232-0. CCEO canon 43 CCEO canons 42–54...
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    only became standard in the sixteenth century, canons were cited by their opening word(s). Two or more canons beginning with the same word/phrase might be...
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  • In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the loss of clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the...
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  • impediment in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church. It invalidates a marriage performed without the presence of three witnesses, one of whom must be...
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    The 1983 Code of Canon Law gives precedence to the title judicial vicar, rather than that of officialis (canon 1420). The Code of Canons of the Eastern...
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