Canon law (from grc, κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod,
ruler
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') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by
ecclesiastical authority Ecclesiastical government, ecclesiastical hierarchy, or ecclesiocracy may refer to:
* Theocracy, a form of religious State government
* Hierocracy (medieval)
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(church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is the internal
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* Della Rocca, Fernando. ''Manual of Canon Law''. Trans. by Rev. Anselm Thatcher, O.S.B. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1959.
* The Episcopal Church. Constitution and Canons together with the Rules of Order for the Government of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, otherwise known as The Episcopal Church''. New York: Church Publishing, Inc., 2006.
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*Hartmann, Wilfried & Kenneth Penningon, eds. ''The History of Byzantine and Eastern Canon Law to 1500''. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011.
* R. C. Mortimer. ''Western Canon Law''. London: A. and C. Black, 1953.
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* Wagschal, David. ''Law and Legality in the Greek East: The Byzantine Canonical Tradition, 381–883''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
* Witte, John, Jr. & Frank S. Alexander, eds. ''Christianity and Law: An Introduction''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
* On Armenian Oriental canon law.