enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Canon law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law

    Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.

  3. Canon law of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law_of_the_Catholic...

    The canon law of the Catholic Church is articulated in the legal code for the Latin Church [9] as well as a code for the Eastern Catholic Churches. [9] This canon law has principles of legal interpretation, [10] and coercive penalties. [11] It lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions.

  4. Philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy,_theology,_and...

    Philosophy and theology shape the concepts and self-understanding of canon law as the law of both a human organization and as a supernatural entity, since the Catholic Church believes that Jesus Christ instituted the church by direct divine command, while the fundamental theory of canon law is a meta-discipline of the "triple relationship ...

  5. Canonical erection of a house of religious in the Catholic ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_erection_of_a...

    to exercise in accordance with canon law the works proper to the institute while observing any conditions that the bishop has attached to his granting of consent; for clerical institutes to have a church in a place agreed on with the bishop and to perform sacred ministry in accordance with canon law. [6]

  6. Ordinance (canon law) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinance_(canon_law)

    An ordinance or ecclesiastical ordinance is a type of law, legal instrument, or by-law in the canon law of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and in Calvinism.. Each Christian denomination that has a hierarchy tends to need rules and regulations that define the rights, privileges, powers, and responsibilities of each individual cleric (such as deacon, priest or pastor, bishop ...

  7. Outline of Catholic canon law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Catholic_canon_law

    Collectiones canonum Dionysianae – The canon law collection compiled by Dionysius Exiguus; Collectio canonum quadripartita – Medieval canon law collection; Collectio canonum Quesnelliana – Late antique canonical collection; Collectio canonum Wigorniensis – Medieval canon law collection

  8. Canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law_of_the_Eastern...

    Eastern Orthodox canon law is "a standard for behavior" and "the attempt to apply dogma to practical situation in the daily life of each [Eastern Orthodox] Christian". [2] Eastern Orthodox canon law "the formalized part of divine law." [3] Viscuso writes that the Eastern Orthodox canon law expresses two realities.

  9. Canon law of the Church of England - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law_of_the_Church_of...

    A few, e.g. canon 37, were amended in the 19th century. A Canon Law Commission was appointed in 1939 to reconsider the matter of canon law in the Church of England: it held eight sessions between 1943 and 1947 and then issued a report which included a full set of new canons which were subsequently considered by Convocation. [1]