The Teaching of Oriental Canon Law in the Formation of Latin Canonists

Abstract

The author presents the relevance of the two Codes of Canon Law in the Church and explains that all Churches sui iuris enjoy the same dignity in the Catholic Church. He also explains other areas of interrelationship between the Eastern and Latin disciplines, legal relations with the Orthodox Churches and the reasons for primacy in the universal Church. He concludes his article stating that the Orthodox Churches have true canon law because they are “Churches” and have episcopates