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'''Canon law''' is the tradition of canonical legislation, which governs Orthodox Church life. It touches on every area of Orthodox Church life, including [[Ecclesiology]], [[Liturgy]], and [[Ethics]]. Although generally referred to as canon law, it is more correctly referred to in the Orthodox community as the ''tradition of the holy canons''. This law, the canonical tradition, involves persons who are invested with authority (such as bishops) enabled with the means of creating, formulating, interpreting, executing, validating, amending and revoking these ''laws'' through synodical or conciliar action.

== The Didache See also ==#[[Didache|'''The Didache''']], or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.#The '''[[Ecumenical Councils]]'''#'''[[The Rudder]]''', the 85 Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles, plus the Canons of the First through Fourth Ecumenical Councils constitute what is known as ''The Rudder''.

== The Rudder ==The 85 Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles, plus the Canons of the First through Fourth Ecumenical Councils (see links further down this page) constitute what is known as "'''*[[The RudderNomocanon]]'''."

==The Ecumenical Councils==;People===The First Ecumenical Council===* [[John Zonaras]] (11th c.)The First Council * [[Theodore IV of Nice AAntioch|Theodore Balsamon]] (12th c.D)* [[Matthew Blastares]] (14th c. 325, called by Emperor Constantine, Pope Silvester. The council met to deal with )* [[Nicodemus of the schism created by Arianism. The Arians wished to avoid the heresy of Sabellius who believed in a divine monad which, by expansion, projected itself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit—a form of ModalismMountain]] (18th c. The Arians separated the Son from God entirely so that they believed he was a creature having a beginning. "There was when he was not." The Son was but God's first creation, yet out of nothing and hence has preeminence over the rest )* [[Nikodim (Milas) of creation. The symbol answers the question, "Who is Jesus Christ"? Its answer: GodDalmatia]] (19th c.)

====The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra Neocaesarea========The Canons of Antioch and Laodicea====These Canons were accepted and received by <!---How do these people relate to the Ecumenical Synods - The Provincial Synods====Council of Sardica====343 A.D. Canon V. Sardica was the first synod which asserted, in some sense, Roman primacy in the Church.law?* [[Lewis Patsavos]]===The Second Ecumenical Council===The First Council of Constantinople A.D. 381, Emperor Theodosius, Pope Damasus. ===The Third Ecumenical Council===The Council of Ephesus A.D. 431, Emperors Theodosius II And Valentinian III, Pope Celestine I ===The Fourth Ecumenical Council===The Council of Chalcedon A.D. 451, Emperors Marcian and Pulcheria * [[Peter (in the EastL'Huillier) and Valentinian III. (in the West), Pope Leo I.of New York|Peter L'Huillier]] ===The Fifth Ecumenical Council===The Second Council of Constantinople A.D* [[Stanley S. 553, Emperor Justinian I, Pope Vigilius ====The Anathemas of the Second Council of Constantinople====Harakas]]553 A.D. Also known as the The Capitula of the Council* [[John H.Erickson]] ===The Sixth Ecumenical Council===The Third Council of Constantinople A.D. 680-681, Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, Pope Agatho I====The Canons of the Council in Trullo====Often Called the Quinisext Council, A.D. 692.====The Canons of the Synods of Sardica, Carthage, Constantinople, and Carthage====These canons were received by the council in Trullo and ratified by the Seventh Ecumenical Council. ===The Seventh Ecumenical Council===The Second Council of Nice A.D. 787, Emperors Constantine VI And Irene, Pope Hadrian ===The So-Called “Eighth General Council” and Subsequent Councils=== ===Canons and Rulings Not Having Conciliar Origin===But approved by name in Canon II of the Synod in Trullo.->

== See also External links ==*[[The Rudder]]*[[Nomocanon]]

;People'''Source Texts'''* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/alltexts.html#Byzantine%20Legal%20Documents Byzantine Legal Documents] - An index by Paul Halsall* [Nicodemus http://www.geocities.com/ekeied/ Post-Byzantine Law on the Web] - This site is devoted to the promotion of the Holy Mountain]]study of law in Venetian and Ottoman Greece to the 19th century* [[Lewis Patsavos]http://aroundomaha.com/cn/stjohn/canons.htm The Rudder]* [[Peter http://www.archive.org/details/Pedalion Complete scan of the Pedalion in Greek] (L'Huillier1886 edition published in Athens. This is the book The Rudder translates. Link to pdf file at that site.) *[http://ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-14/TOC.htm Canons and Definitions of New York|Peter L'Huillierthe Ecumenical Councils]*[http://aggreen.net/canons/canons.html Canons of the Orthodox Church]* [[Stanley Shttp://www.archive. Harakas]org/details/SyntagmaTonTheionKaiHieronKanononTonTeHagionKaiPaneuphemonApostolon Canons of the Orthodox Church in Greek](Link to pdf scans of all 6 volumes of the definitive 19th century collection of Rhalle and Potle)* [[John Hhttp://www.archive. Ericksonorg/details/drevneslavianska00bene Canons of the Orthodox Church in Slavonic with Greek parallel](Link to pdf scan of Beneshevich's 1906 Drevne-Slavonskaia Kormchaia [Old Slavonic Kormchaia{Kniga}, 14 Chapters without commentary])