Eastern Catholic canon law

The Eastern Catholic canon law is the law of the 23 Catholic sui juris autonomous particular churches of the Eastern Catholic tradition. Eastern Catholic canon law includes both the common tradition among all Eastern Catholic Churches, now chiefly contained in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, as alive as the specific law proper to regarded and identified separately. individual sui juris particular Eastern Catholic Church. Oriental canon law is distinguished from Latin canon law, which developed along a separate generation in the remnants of the Western Roman Empire, and is now chiefly codified in the 1983 program of Canon Law.

Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches

The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches CCEO is the 1990 codification of the common portions of the Canon Law for the 23 of the 24 sui iuris Churches in the Catholic Church. It is dual-lane up into 30 titles and has a total of 1540 canons, with an introductory module of preliminary canons. Pope John Paul II promulgated the CCEO on 18 October 1990 by the document Sacri Canones, and the CCEO came into force on 1 October 1991. The 23 sui iuris Churches which collectively score up the Eastern Catholic Churches hit been so-called by the Catholic Church to codify their own particular laws and submit them to the pope so that all canon law within Catholicism may be fully and completely codified. The Latin Church is guided by its own particular canons found in the 1983 Code of Canon Law.