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Canon (Greek: κανονικός, romanized:kanonikós) is a Christian title usually used to refer to a member of certain bodies in subject to an ecclesiastical rule. Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergy house or, later, in one of the houses within the precinct of or close to a cathedral or other major church and ...
The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are Catholic priests who live in community under a rule (Latin: regula and κανών, kanon, in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology.
The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum [1]) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". [2] It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the ...
An ecclesiastical person ( Latin Canonicus ), a member of a chapter or body of clerics living according to rule and presided over by one of their number. Whether the title as applied to persons is derived from canon (Gk. kanón ), a rule, or from the same term meaning a ...
Apostolic Letter issued “Motu proprio” Competentias quasdam decernere introducing changes to some norms of the Code of Canon Law and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (11 February 2022)
The ecclesiastical law which this Corpus embraces constitutes the classical law of the Catholic Church and is commonly called by this name. To this corpus of law of the Latin Church corresponds to some extent the Syntagma canonum or oriental corpus of canons of the Greek Church.
The Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church is contained in two Codes that legislate on the way the Church is organized and carries out its activities in the world. The Law is understood with reference to a renewed ecclesiology expressed in the texts of the Second Vatican Council, which deeply inspired its development.
