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Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches: New English Translation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches was promulgated in 1990. This code governs the 22 Eastern Rite Churches, which, while in communion with the pope, retain their unique traditions and discipline. Covering much of the same ground as the Code of Canon Law, the Canons are drawn from the ancient traditions of the Eastern Churches of Christendom.

of each deacon to the pastor of the parish where the baptism of the ordained was registered. CAN. 776 §1.† By the marriage covenant, founded by the Creator and ordered by His laws, a man and a woman by irrevocable personal consent establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life; this covenant is by its very nature ordered to the good of the spouses and to the procreation and education of children. §2.† By Christ’s institution, a valid marriage between baptized
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