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  2. Apostolic Canons - Wikipedia

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    The fifty Latin canons were first printed in Jacques Merlin's edition of the Councils (Paris, 1524); the eighty-five Greek Canons by G. Holoander, in his edition of Justinian's Novels (Nuremberg, 1531), whence they made their way into the earlier editions of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the Corpus Juris Canonici, and the large collections of acts ...

  3. Canon law - Wikipedia

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    The Apostolic Canons [8] or Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles [9] is a collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees (eighty-five in the Eastern, fifty in the Western Church) concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions which are part of the Ante-Nicene ...

  4. List of excommunicable offences from the Council of Trent

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    A number of canons assigning automatic ex-communication were enacted, which became part of the church's canon law. Heresies about the Sacraments or de fide doctrines which had been rejected or re-defined by the Protestants were specified and assigned automatic excommunication for Catholics who held them. These canons still apply today, as ...

  5. Apostolic Constitutions - Wikipedia

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    The forty-seventh and last chapter of the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions contains the eighty-five Canons of the Apostles, which present themselves as being from an apostolic Council at Antioch. These canons were later approved by the Eastern Council in Trullo in 692 but rejected by Pope Constantine.

  6. Reformed confessions of faith - Wikipedia

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    They may confess that church's response to a theological controversy (e.g. the Canons of Dort) or seek to find common ground between discrete churches (e.g. the Consensus Tigurinus). Zwingli's Sixty-Seven Articles (1523) [ 3 ]

  7. 1917 Code of Canon Law - Wikipedia

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    New laws would be appended to existing canons in new paragraphs or inserted between canons, repeating the number of the previous canon and adding bis, ter, etc. [19] (e.g. "canon 1567bis" in the style of the civil law) so as not to subvert the ordering of the code, or the existing text of a canon would be completely supplanted. The numbering of ...

  8. Religious order - Wikipedia

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    canons regular (canons and canonesses regular who recite the Divine Office and serve a church and perhaps a parish) mendicants (friars or religious sisters who live from alms, recite the Divine Office, and, in the case of the men, participate in apostolic activities); and; clerics regular (priests who take religious vows and have an active ...

  9. List of religious texts - Wikipedia

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    Most Protestant Bibles include the Hebrew Bible's 24 books (the protocanonical books) divided differently (into 39 books) and the 27-book New Testament for a total of 66 books. Some denominations (e.g. Anglicanism ) also include the 14 books of the biblical apocrypha between the Old Testament and the New Testament, for a total of 80 books.