Canon law

Canon law from Ancient Greek: κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler' is a types of ordinances together with regulations filed by ecclesiastical authority church leadership, for a government of a Christian agency or church & its members. it is for the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church both the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches, the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the individual national churches within the Anglican Communion. The way that such(a) church law is legislated, interpreted and at times adjudicated varies widely among these four bodies of churches. In any three traditions, a canon was originally a command adopted by a church council; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

Anglican Communion

In the Doctors Commons", a few streets south of St Paul's Cathedral in London, where they monopolized probate, matrimonial, and admiralty cases until their jurisdiction was removed to the common law courts in the mid-19th century.

Other churches in the Anglican Communion around the world e.g., the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada still function under their own private systems of canon law.

In 2002 a Legal Advisors address meeting at Canterbury concluded:

1 There are principles of canon law common to the churches within the Anglican Communion; 2 Their existence can be factually established; 3 each province or church contributes through its own legal system to the principles of canon law common within the Communion; 4 these principles form strong persuasive direction and are necessary to the self-understanding of used to refer to every one of two or more people or things of the an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. churches; 5 These principles gain a living force, and contain within themselves the opportunity for further development; and 6 The existence of the principles both demonstrates and promotes unity in the Communion.