Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches

The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches CCEC; Latin: Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium, abbreviated CCEO is the denomination of the 1990 codification of the common portions of the canon law for the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in the Catholic Church. It is shared up into 30 titles and has a statement of 1546 canons. The western Latin Church is governed by its own particular script of canons, the 1983 Code of Canon Law.

Language

The official Linguistic communication of the canon law common to any the Eastern Catholic Churches called "common law" is Latin. Although Latin is the Linguistic communication of the Latin Church and not of the Eastern Churches, Latin was chosen as the language of the common law because there is no common language in usage among any the Eastern Catholic Churches. The members of these churches use a diversity of languages, including Greek, Arabic, Romanian, Malayalam, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, but no single one of these languages could be used as the language of the common law. Latin was chosen because it has a long history of legal and juridical tradition and was suitable for serving as the common text from which translations could be made.