Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Eastern Code

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The Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Eastern Code was a Vatican body tasked with drafting and updating the universal canon law code for the Eastern Catholic Churches.

All labels observed (2)

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Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Vatican body
ecclesiastical institution
pontifical commission
appliesTo Eastern Catholic Churches
Eastern Catholic canon law
collaboratesWith Eastern Catholic patriarchs and bishops
dicasteries of the Roman Curia
country Vatican City
fieldOfWork Eastern Catholic canon law
canon law
ecclesiastical legislation
follows Pope
surface form: Roman Pontiff
hasAuthorityOver drafting of Eastern Catholic universal laws
hasBeneficiary Eastern Catholic faithful
Eastern Catholic Churches
surface form: Eastern Catholic hierarchies
hasCanonicalScope universal Eastern Catholic legislation
hasGoal to provide a unified code of canon law for Eastern Catholic Churches
to update and harmonize Eastern Catholic canonical discipline with contemporary needs
hasMainTask preparation of a universal code of canon law for the Eastern Catholic Churches
revision of Eastern Catholic canon law
updating norms for Eastern Catholic Churches
hasTypeOfLawProduced universal canon law
isPartOf governance structures of the Catholic Church
jurisdiction Holy See
legalForm pontifical commission
locatedIn Rome
Vatican City
partOf Roman Curia
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
subjectOf Catholic canon law scholarship
studies on Eastern Catholic Churches
subordinateTo Holy See
Pope
usesLanguage Italian
Latin

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches preparationSupervisedBy Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Eastern Code
1917 Code of Canon Law influenced Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Eastern Code
this entity surface form: 1918 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (partial, preparatory work)