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Information about Canon law

Canon law is the law of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox
churches. A canon is a rule adopted by a council; these canons formed the
foundation of canon law. (From Greek kanon, for rule or measure). In the
Anglican church, the official Church of England, the Ecclesiastical Courts
that formerly decided many matters such as disputes relating to marriage
still have jurisdiction of certain church related matters; their
jurisdiction dates back to the middle ages. In contrast to the other courts
of England the law used in eclessiastical matters is a civil law system, not
common law.

In the Roman Catholic church, the canons of the councils were supplemented
with decrees of the Popes, which were gathered together into collections
called decretals.

The Eastern church is generally much less legalistic, and treats many of the
canons more as guidelines than as absolute laws, adjusting them to cultural
and other local circumstances.

In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church began attempting to codify
canon law, which two millennia of development had become a complex and
difficult system of interpretation and cross referencing. The first code of
canon law was published in 1917. A revised code was published in 1983.

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