The UCI Law community transcends walls, we exist throughout California, the United States, and the world. For many centuries before it was codified Catholic canon law was “collected”, that’s, it was found within collections of official documents, some of which collections were themselves official, while others have been merely non-public. Most of these supplies, and a few later materials, had been organized into the Corpus Iuris Canonici . The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches is the first integrated code of canon law for the Eastern Catholic Churches. Promulgated by John Paul II in 1990 and taking force in 1991, the Eastern Code replaced scattered laws that had, partly, ruled the Eastern Catholic Church during the second half of the twentieth century. The Eastern Code stands alongside the Johanno-Pauline Code of 1983 as a major legislative document of the Catholic Church right now.
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