The Code of Canon of the Eastern Churches (CCCC, lat. Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium, CCEO) is a code of canon law common to all Eastern Catholic Churches . Proclaimed on October 18, 1990 by the Sacri Canones Apostolic Constitution , published by Pope John Paul II . Entered into force on October 1, 1991 .
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A Brief History of the Code
Until the 20th century, various collections of law existed in the Eastern and Western Church, often not very systematic, chronological, and therefore inconvenient for consumption. In 1917, Pope Benedict XV announced the Code of Canon Law , which was the first truly systematic collection of law in the Catholic Church . Work on a similar compilation for the Eastern Churches began in 1929 . By the middle of the 20th century, the Eastern Code was almost ready, but Pope Pius XII proclaimed only some of its parts with its four motu proprio :
- mp Crebrae allatae sunt (marital law) (February 22, 1949), AAS 41 (1949) 89-119.
- mp Sollicitudinem Nostram (procedural law) (January 6, 1950), AAS 42 (1950) 5-120.
- mp Postquam Apostolicis Litteris (monks, property, terms) (November 9, 1952), AAS 44 (1952) 65-152.
- mp Cleri sanctitati (personal law) (June 2, 1957), AAS 49 (1957) 433-603.
After the Second Vatican Council , the need arose to revise both eastern and western canon law. In 1972, Pope Paul VI created the Commission to review Eastern Canon Law. The result of her nearly twenty-year work was the proclamation in 1990 of a new Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. A few years earlier, in 1983, the new Code of Canon Law of the Latin Church came into force.
General characteristics
The source code of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches is issued in Latin .
The Codex consists of 1546 canons, divided into 30 titles (according to the tradition of the ancient Eastern Christian canonical collections).
The Code has binding force only for the faithful Eastern Catholic Churches , although in some cases it also obliges the Roman Catholic Church .
Due to the fact that the CCEC is a general code for many churches, very often it contains a reference to the particular right of each individual Church to its own law, which must provide detailed rules regarding certain cases. In some cases, the Code allows private law to even modify the rules of law contained in the CCEC.
The Codex was updated with an apostolic letter in the form of motu proprio Ad tuendam fidem of Pope John Paul II in 1998 (canons 598 and 1436).
Literature
- Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium auctoritate Ioannis Pauli II Pp. promulgatus, Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis 1990.
- Jerosa Libero. Church Law / Transl. z nim. N. Schigelsky. - Lviv: Svichado, 2001 .-- 336 p. ISBN 966-561-213-1