Corpus Canonum orientale

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The Corpus Canonum orientale or Syntagma Canonum is a chronological collection of canons from the Eastern Church and was created after the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

Collections of the Eastern Churches up to the 7th century

The law of the collections of the Eastern Church flows from three sources: collections of the conciliar legislation, state church legislation of the emperors and the canonical letters of the church fathers and the laws of the patriarchs of Constantinople. The Eastern Church refuses to recognize the papal decretals. In the east there is an intensive imperial standardization of the church ( Caesaropapism of the Byzantine empire since the 6th century). The canons form a main component of Byzantine canon law and were only recognized by Rome insofar as they did not contradict Roman canon law.

Origin of the collection and content

The Corpus Canonum Orientale is a chronological collection of laws, consisting of the canons of the Councils of Ancyra (314), Neocaesarea (314-325), Council of Nicaea (325), Gangra (341-342), Antioch (341) and Laodicea (343 -380). The last editor of the collection was Bishop Meltius. After the Council of Chalcedon , its canons were also added. The collection is written entirely in ancient Greek .

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