canon law

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The law of the church, religious law

Canon law determines who is declared a saint.

A regulation in church law

The canon law on this matter conflicts with several other canon laws.

Christian religious law, ecclesiastical law of the Christian religion
Canon law is the law of the Christian church. It has authority only for that church and its members. The Church's canon law forbids remarriage of divorced persons. The body of officially established rules governing the faith and practice of the members of a Christian church. the laws of the Christian Church. Body of laws established within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, independent churches of Eastern Christianity, and the Anglican Communion for church governance. Canon law concerns the constitution of the church, relations between it and other bodies, and matters of internal discipline. The ecclesiastical lawyer and teacher Gratian published the first definitive collection of Roman Catholic canon law 1140; the Decretum Gratiani drew on older local collections, councils, Roman law, and church fathers. The enlarged Corpus juris canonici ("Body of Canon Law") was published in 1500. A commission of cardinals issued the new Codex juris canonici ("Code of Canon Law") in 1917, and a revised version was commissioned after the Second Vatican Council and published in 1983. Following the Schism of 1054, the Eastern Orthodox church developed its own canon law under the patriarch of Constantinople. The Anglican, Coptic, and Ethiopian Orthodox churches also formulated their own collections
the body of codified laws governing the affairs of a Christian church

Related Terms

canon laws
plural form of canon law
canon laws
Religious rules, regulations and edicts
canon law

    Hyphenation

    can·on law

    Turkish pronunciation

    känın lô

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkanən ˈlô/ /ˈkænən ˈlɔː/

    Etymology

    [ 'ka-n&n ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle French canon, from Italian cannone, literally, large tube, augmentative of canna reed, tube, from Latin, cane, reed; more at CANE.
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