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In canon law, a canon designates some law promulgated by a synod, an ecumenical council, or an individual bishop. The word "canon" comes from the Greek

jurisprudence of the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of the law in certain cases. Its

much later than Roman law but predating the evolution of modern European civil law traditions. The history of Latin canon law can be divided into four

1962, that of Saint Joseph her spouse. By the fourth century, however, "confessors"—people who had confessed their faith not by dying but by word and life—began

Canon 42 Catholic Church Canon Law. Retrieved 9 March 2008. Canon 375 Archived 19 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Catholic Church Canon Law. Retrieved

A censure, in the canon law of the Catholic Church, is a medicinal and spiritual punishment imposed by the Church on a baptized, delinquent, and contumacious

July 2017. Canon 792, Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Code of Canon Law, canon 845 and 869; cf. New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, John P.

Canon Law, this responsibility belongs to the college of consultors, unless the national bishops conference decides that the functions that canon law

discordantium canonum or simply as the Decretum, is a collection of Catholic canon law compiled and written in the 12th century as a legal textbook by the jurist

Dominicans who was a canon lawyer. He compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws that remained a major part of Church law until the 1917