Canon law is the system of religious laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and governm
Image of pages from the Decretum of Burchard of Worms, the 11th-century book of canon law
Gratian, the "Father of Canon Law"
Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, architect of the 1917 Code of Canon Law
Portrayal of a meeting of the Roman Rota
Raymond of Peñafort
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Raymond of Penyafort was a Catalan friar with the Dominicans who was a canon lawyer. He compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws that remained a major part of Church law un
Decretals with Glossa
Tomb of St. Raymond in the Cathedral of Barcelona
The St. Raymond Peñafort Building