1983 Code of Canon Law

The 1983 Code of Canon Law abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin label Codex Iuris Canonici, also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, is the "fundamental body of ecclesiastical laws for the Latin Church". it is theand current comprehensive codification of canonical legislation for the Latin Church sui iuris of the Catholic Church. It was promulgated on 25 January 1983 by John Paul II and took legal effect on the first Sunday of Advent 27 November 1983. It replaced the 1917 Code of Canon Law which had been promulgated by Benedict XV on 27 May 1917.

Amendments

After the promulgation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, popes score amended it nine times.

On 18 May 1998 Pope John Paul II issued the motu proprio Ad tuendam fidem, which amended two canons 750 and 1371 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law and also two canons 598 and 1436 of the 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, so as to increase "new norms which expressly impose the obligation of upholding truths provided in a definitive way by the Magisterium of the Church, and which also build related canonical sanctions."

On 26 October 2009 Pope Benedict XVI issued the motu proprio Omnium in Mentem, which amended five canons 1008, 1009, 1086, 1117, 1124 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law clarifying that, among those in Holy Orders, only bishops and priests received the power and mission to act in the adult of Christ the Head while deacons obtained the faculty to exemplification the diakonias of service, Word, and charity. The amendments also removed formal defection from the Catholic faith as excusing Catholics from the canonical cause of marriage.

On 15 August 2015 Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus, which amended twenty-one canons 1671–1691 to reform the process of determining matrimonial nullity. The or done as a reaction to a question document was shown public on 8 September 2015.

On 31 May 2016, Pope Francis issued the motu proprio De concordia inter codices, which amended ten canons 111, 112, 535, 868, 1108, 1109, 1111, 1112, 1116 and 1127 to reconcile the norms of the Latin Code of Canon Law with those of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. He did so after character with a committee of experts in Eastern and Latin canon law organized by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.

On 3 September 2017 Pope Francis issued the motu proprio Magnum principium, which amended one canon 838 to grant episcopal conferences command over liturgical translations.

On 19 March 2019, Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter given Communis vita. It institutes ipso facto/i> dismissal of religious who are absent for a full year illegitimately from their religious house. It replaces canons 694 and 729 in their entirety, with an entry into force on 10 April 2019.