Pio-Benedictine Code

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The Pio-Benedictine Code is the first comprehensive codification of Latin Catholic canon law, promulgated in 1917 under Popes Pius X and Benedict XV.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf canonical legislation
code of canon law
legal codification
alsoKnownAs 1917 Code of Canon Law
CIC 1917
1917 Code of Canon Law
surface form: Codex Iuris Canonici (1917)

Pio-Benedictine Code
surface form: Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law
appliesTo Latin Church worldwide
surface form: Latin Church
approvedBy Pope Benedict XV
cameIntoForceUnder Pope Benedict XV
codificationType first comprehensive codification of Latin Catholic canon law
commissionEstablishedBy Pope Pius X
containsApproximately 2414 canons
draftingCommissionHeadedBy Pietro Gasparri
effectiveDate 1918-05-19
geographicalScope Latin Church worldwide
surface form: worldwide Latin Church
governs church discipline in the Latin Church
church governance and hierarchy
ecclesiastical penalties
sacraments in the Latin Church
influenced subsequent codifications of canon law
influencedBy Corpus Iuris Canonici
Council of Trent
First Vatican Council
inForceUntil 1983-11-27
initiatedBy Pope Pius X
juridicalScope universal law for the Latin Church
language Latin
legalCharacter universal disciplinary law
legalForm apostolic constitution
legalSystem canon law
namedAfter Pope Benedict XV
Pope Pius X
partiallySupersededBy Code of Canon Law (1983)
surface form: 1983 Code of Canon Law
partOf Latin canon law
preparationBegan 1904
promulgatedBy Pope Benedict XV
promulgatedThrough apostolic constitution Providentissima Mater Ecclesia
promulgationDate 1917-05-27
religiousTradition Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: Catholic Church
repealedBy Code of Canon Law (1983)
surface form: 1983 Code of Canon Law
replaced previous dispersed canonical legislation
structure 5 books
subjectArea church governance
ecclesiastical law
penal canon law
procedural canon law
sacramental discipline

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1917 Code of Canon Law alsoKnownAs Pio-Benedictine Code
Pio-Benedictine Code alsoKnownAs Pio-Benedictine Code
this entity surface form: Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law
CIC 1917 alsoKnownAs Pio-Benedictine Code