Corpus Iuris Canonici

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 700+ words | Copyright

Corpus Iuris Canonici. The chief collection of canon law in the W. Church before the promulgation of the Codex Iuris Canonici in 1917. It was composed of the ‘Decretum’ of Gratian, a private collection of canons of Councils, decrees of Popes, and other material; 5 books of Decretals, collected by Raymond of Peñafort at the command of Gregory IX, who added his authority to that already possessed by the component parts; the ‘Sext’, a sixth book added to the Decretals of Gregory IX by Boniface VIII; the ‘Clementines’, compiled by Clement V and promulgated after his death by John XXII; the ‘Extravagantes’ of John XXII; and the ‘Extravagantes Communes’, the decress of various Popes between 1261 and 1484.

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