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    The 1917 Code of Canon Law was the first comprehensive codification of Latin canon law, promulgated by Pope Benedict XV on May 27, 1917 and taking legal effect on May 19, 1918. It was in force until replaced by the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The 1917 Code was issued in response to the more than 10,000 disjointed canons that had developed over centuries. Under the direction of Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the canons were examined, systematized into a single volume, and harmonized with secular laws to provide clear and consolidated legislation for the Latin Church.

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    The 1917 Code of Canon Law was the first comprehensive codification of Latin canon law, promulgated by Pope Benedict XV on May 27, 1917 and taking legal effect on May 19, 1918. It was in force until replaced by the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The 1917 Code was issued in response to the more than 10,000 disjointed canons that had developed over centuries. Under the direction of Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the canons were examined, systematized into a single volume, and harmonized with secular laws to provide clear and consolidated legislation for the Latin Church.

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    The 1917 Code of Canon Law was the first comprehensive codification of Latin canon law, promulgated by Pope Benedict XV on May 27, 1917 and taking legal effect on May 19, 1918. It was in force until replaced by the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The 1917 Code was issued in response to the more than 10,000 disjointed canons that had developed over centuries. Under the direction of Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the canons were examined, systematized into a single volume, and harmonized with secular laws to provide clear and consolidated legislation for the Latin Church.

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    The document discusses the history and development of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which was the first comprehensive codification of Latin canon law.

    Pope St. Pius X ordered the creation of the first Code of Canon Law to reduce the over 10,000 diverse norms and documents into a single code with clearly stated laws.

    The Code of Canon Law was promulgated on 27 May 1917 by Pope Benedict XV and took legal effect on 19 May 1918.

    1917 Code of Canon Law

    For the Code of Canon Law currently in eect, see 1983


    Code of Canon Law.
    For the Code governing the Eastern Catholic Churches,
    see Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

    authenticity by leading experts, and harmonized as much


    as possible with opposing canons and even other codes,
    from the Codex of Justinian to the Napoleonic Code.
    In response to the request of the bishops at the First Vatican Council,[3] on 14 May 1904, with the motu proprio
    Arduum sane munus, Pope Pius X set up a commission
    to begin work on reducing these diverse documents into
    a single code,[4] presenting the normative portion in the
    form of systematic short canons shorn of the preliminary
    considerations[5] (Whereas...) and omitting those parts
    that had been superseded by later developments.

    The 1917 Code of Canon Law, also referred to as the


    Pio-Benedictine Code,[1] was the rst comprehensive
    codication of Latin canon law. It was promulgated on
    27 May 1917 and took legal eect on 19 May 1918. It
    was in force until the 1983 Code of Canon Law took legal
    eect and abrogated it[1] on 27 November 1983.[2]

    The code was promulgated on 27 May 1917 as the Code


    of Canon Law (Latin: Codex Iuris Canonici) by his successor, Pope Benedict XV, who set 19 May 1918 as the
    date on which it came into force.[6] For the most part, it
    applied only to the Latin Church except when it treats of
    things that, by their nature, apply to the Oriental,[7] such
    as the eects of baptism (canon 87). It contained 2,414
    canons.[8]

    History

    2 References
    [1] Dr. Edward Peters, CanonLaw.info, accessed June-92013
    [2] NYTimes.com, "New Canon Law Code in Eect for
    Catholics", 27-Nov-1983, accessed June-25-2013
    [3] Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, preface to the CIC 1917
    [4] Manual of Canon Law, pg. 47
    [5] Manual of Canon Law, pg. 49
    Cover of the 1917 Code of Canon Law

    [6] Ap Const. Providentissima Mater Ecclesia Benedict XV,


    27 May 1917

    By the 19th Century, this body of legislation included


    some 10,000 norms. Many these were dicult to reconcile with one another due to changes in circumstances
    and practice. This situation impelled Pope St. Pius X to
    order the creation of the rst Code of Canon Law, a single volume of clearly stated laws. Under the aegis of the
    Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the Commission for the Codication of Canon Law was completed under Benedict
    XV, who promulgated the Code, eective in 1918. The
    work having been begun by Pius X and promulgated by
    Benedict XV, it is sometimes called the Pio-Benedictine
    Code[1] but more often the 1917 Code. In its preparation, centuries of material was examined, scrutinized for

    [7] canon 1, 1917 Code of Canon Law


    [8] Dr. Edward N. Peters, CanonLaw.info A Simple
    Overview of Canon Law, accessed June-11-2013

    2.1 Bibliography
    Manual of Canon Law
    Fernando della Rocca (translated by Rev. Anselm
    Thatcher, O.S.B.), Manual of Canon Law (Milwaukee:
    The Bruce Publishing Company, 1959)
    1

    2
    1917 (Pio-Benedictine) Code of Canon Law (CIC)
    Translated by Edward Peters, The 1917 or PioBenedictine Code of Canon Law: in English Translation with Extensive Scholarly Apparatus (Ignatius Press,
    2001)

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