canon law
Introduction
Catholics of Eastern rites have their own separate codes of canon law, approved by the Roman Catholic Church. The term canon law
is also used for ecclesiastical law in churches of the Anglican Communion. The Anglican Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical (1603) was a collection of rulings, not based on the old canon law, but given equal force with the canon law.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- The Canon Law Code
- Compilations of Canon Law
- Bibliography
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