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Each Lutheran national church establishes its own system of church order and discipline, though these are not referred to as "canons". The United Methodist Church. The Book of Discipline contains the laws, rules, policies and guidelines for The United Methodist Church. It is revised every four years by the General Conference, the law-making ...
The Church Educational System (CES) Honor Code is a set of standards by which students and faculty attending a school owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) are required to live. The most widely known university that is part of the Church Educational System (CES) that has adopted the honor code is ...
The Constitution of the Church in South India (1947) Message of the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches (1948) The Unity We Have and Seek (1952) A Message from the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches (1954) The Unity of the Church, St. Andrews (1960) The Church's Unity, World Council of Churches, New Delhi (1961)
Precepts of the Church. In the Catholic Church, the Precepts of the Church, sometimes called the Commandments of the Church, are certain laws considered binding on the faithful. As usually understood, they are moral and ecclesiastical, broad in character and limited in number. In modern times there are five.
Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) include weekly services, held in meetinghouses on Sundays (or another day when local custom or law prohibits Sunday worship), in geographically based religious units (called wards or branches ). Once per month, this weekly service is a fast and testimony meeting.
The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches ( CCEC; Latin: Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium, [1] abbreviated CCEO) is the title of the 1990 work which is a codification of the common portions of the canon law for the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in the Catholic Church. It is divided into 30 titles and has a total of 1546 canons. [2]
t. e. Logo of The Campaign for Collective Apostasy in Spain, calling for defection from the Catholic Church. A formal act of defection from the Catholic Church ( Latin: actus formalis defectionis ab Ecclesia catholica) was an externally provable juridic act of departure from the Catholic Church that existed between 1983 and 2010. [1]
t. e. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a person is a subject of certain legal rights and obligations. [1] [2] Persons may be distinguished between physical and juridic persons. Juridic persons may be distinguished as collegial or non-collegial, and public or private juridical persons. The Holy See and the Catholic Church as such are not ...