The doctrinal decisions of the council are divided into decrees ( decreta ), which contain the positive statement of the conciliar dogmas, and into short canons ( canones ), which condemn the dissenting Protestant views with the concluding " anathema sit " (" let him be anathema ").

The permanent criteria of church structure for the Orthodox Church today, outside the New Testament writings, are found in the canons ( regulation and decrees ) of the first seven ecumenical councils ; the canons of several local or provincial councils, whose authority was recognized by the whole church ; the Apostolic Canons, dating from the 4th century ); and the " canons of the Fathers " or selected extracts from prominent church leaders having canonical importance.

In his wider policy, which was characterised throughout by an effective stringency, the maintenance and increase of the efficacy of the Inquisition and the enforcement of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent had precedence over other considerations.

Of great importance in the ecclesiastical history of England was a council which Stephen opened at Osney on 17 April 1222 ; its decrees, known as the Constitutions of Stephen Langton, are the earliest provincial canons which are still recognized as binding in English church courts.

The council also passed five canons condemning Nestorius and Caelestius and their followers as heretics and a sixth one decreeing deposition from clerical office or excommunication for those who did not accept the Council's decrees.

From about 500 he lived in Rome, where, as a learned member of the Roman Curia, he translated from Greek into Latin 401 ecclesiastical canons, including the apostolical canons and the decrees of the councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Chalcedon and Sardis, and also a collection of the decretals of the popes from Siricius to Anastasius II.

Many of the canons relating to these matters were mostly a restating of the decrees of the Council of Reims and the Council of Clermont.

This council set forth 14 canons, or decrees, which dealt with a number of subjects, including doctrinal concerns, financial affairs, and the duties of the clergy.

However, to the extent that the papacy continues to claim as official dogma the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent, the LCMS position is that the office of the papacy is the Antichrist.

These decrees appear in the later medieval collections of canons.

“ Despite six hundred years of decrees, canons, and increasingly harsh penalties, the Latin clergy still did, more or less illegally, what their Greek counterparts were encouraged to do by law — they lived with their wives and raised families.

On 15 July 1923, Patriarch declared all Renovationist decrees, as well as all their sacramental actions ( including ordinations ) to be without grace, due to the " trickery " by which they tried to seize power in the Church and to their complete disregard for the canons.

The infallible sacred magisterium includes the extraordinary declarations of the pope speaking ex cathedra and of ecumenical councils ( traditionally expressed in conciliar creeds, canons, and decrees ), as well as of the ordinary and universal magisterium.

The infallible teachings of the ecumenical councils consist of the solemn dogmatic, theological or moral definitions as contained in declarations, decrees, doctrines and condemnations ( traditionally expressed in conciliar canons and decrees ) of councils consisting of the pope and the bishops from all over the world.

“ Despite six hundred years of decrees, canons, and increasingly harsh penalties, the Latin clergy still did, more or less illegally, what their Greek counterparts were encouraged to do by law — they lived with their wives and raised families.

The Council expressed its decrees in the form of written rules or canons.

This work is a collection of conciliar decrees and church canons, most of which he culled from numerous ninth and tenth-century Carolingian works.

The infallible sacred magisterium includes the extraordinary declarations of the pope speaking ex cathedra and of ecumenical councils ( traditionally expressed in conciliar creeds, canons, and decrees ), as well as of the ordinary and universal magisterium.

The Canons of Hippolytus is a Christian text composed of 38 decrees (" canons ") of the genre of the Church Orders.

He also published a translation of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent ( 1848 ) and of François Véron's Rule of Faith ( 1833 ).

In all three traditions, a canon was originally a rule adopted by a council ; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

The council also issued 27 disciplinary canons governing church administration and authority.

The work of the council was completed by a series of 27 disciplinary canons:

According to some ancient Greek collections, canons 29 and 30 are attributed to the council: canon 29, which states that an unworthy bishop cannot be demoted but can be removed, is an extract from the minutes of the 19th session ; canon 30, which grants the Egyptians time to consider their rejection of Leo's Tome, is an extract from the minutes of the fourth session.

However, fearing that withholding Rome's approval would be interpreted as a rejection of the entire council, in 453 the pope confirmed the council ’ s canons with a protest against the 28th.

... the emperor ... convened a council of 318 bishops ... in the city of Nicea ... They passed certain ecclesiastical canons at the council besides, and at the same time decreed in regard to the Passover that there must be one unanimous concord on the celebration of God's holy and supremely excellent day.

The last council during the 13th century was the council of 1282, during which they published 10 canons.

The council published seventy-nine canons in 1337.

The final council on record was in 1849 and it published ten chapters of canons concerning discipline and faith.

However, the solution generally accepted today is that the bishops signed the canons condemning Origenism before the council formally opened.

By its terms, the Pope recalled his bull of dissolution, and, reserving all the rights of the Holy See, acknowledged the council as ecumenical on 15 December 1433 except for the initial unapproved sessions that contained canons which exalted conciliar authority above that of the pope.

Those who must be invited to a diocesan synod by law are any coadjutor or auxiliary bishops, the vicars general and episcopal, the officialis, the vicars forane plus an additional priest from each vicariate forane, the presbyterial council, canons of the cathedral chapter ( if there is one ), the rector of the seminary, some of the superiors of religious houses in the diocese, and members of the laity chosen by the diocesan pastoral council, though the diocesan bishop can invite others to attend at his own initiative.

The council decreed eight canons, or ecclesiastical statutes, including ones condemning the pillaging of church properties and the imposition of financial levies on the clergy.

On September 1, 1796, the revolutionary council disbanded the local administration by the canons, thereby also dealing a heavy blow to the local economy.

In all three traditions, a canon was initially a rule adopted by a council ( From Greek kanon / κανών, Hebrew kaneh / קנה, for rule, standard, or measure ); these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

On 12 December the council pronounced Nikon guilty of reviling the tsar and the whole Muscovite Church, of deposing Paul, bishop of Kolomna, contrary to the canons, and of beating and torturing his dependents.

Many of these groups have developed differences in their prayers, traditions and accepted canons ; however these distinctions are mainly the result of their being formed at some cultural distance from normative ( rabbinic ) Judaism, rather than based on any doctrinal dispute.

Marwan Nader questions this and suggests that the canons may not have applied to the whole kingdom at all times.

In fact, the figures and arrangement of modern Scottish country dances, while derived from a 300-year tradition, make it difficult to generalize because many newer dances feature new ideas such as partner changes ( you dance with a new partner on each new time through the dance, as in " Nighean Donn " ( by Peter Hastings ) or " Caddam Wood " ( by John Mitchell )), palindromic structure ( the sequence of figures is similar seen from the end to the beginning as it is seen from the beginning to the end, as in " The White Heather Jig " by Cosh ), fugues ( the sequence of figures for each couple is intricately intertwined to resemble the structure of a musical fugue ), canons ( a new couple begins their time through even though the couple before have not finished theirs yet ) and others, such as John Drewry's " Crossing the Line ", where the bottom of the set becomes the top for the next time through.

Never a large house, the community appears to have consisted of the prior and up to four canons.

While most canons using this device, such as those by Johann Sebastian Bach, have the tempos of the various parts in quite simple ratios, like 2: 1, Nancarrow's canons are in far more complicated ratios.

They include the canons of the Hospice at the Great St. Bernard Pass in the Alps on the border of Switzerland, where they have served travelers since the mid-11th century.

Various scholars have developed guidelines, or canons of textual criticism, to guide the exercise of the critic's judgment in determining the best readings of a text.

Although most contemporaries would not have considered there to be much of a distinction between monks and canons, William's election still occasioned some trepidation among the monks of the Canterbury chapter, who were " alarmed at the appointment, since he was a clerk ".

Ranulf kept the revenues that would have gone to the missing canons and used it to rebuild the church.

The Bible exists in multiple manuscripts, none of them autographs, and multiple canons, none of which completely agree on which books have sufficient authority to be included or their order ( see Books of the Bible ).

They appear to have flourished during the early Islamic period, as attested by the voluminous expansion of Mandaic literature and canons.

The Greek-speaking Orthodox have collected canons and commentaries upon them in a work known as the Pēdálion ( Greek: Πηδάλιον, " Rudder "), so named because it is meant to " steer " the Church.

Some Orthodox canon scholars point out that, had the Ecumenical Councils ( which deliberated in Greek ) meant for the canons to be used as laws, they would have called them nómoi / νόμοι ( laws ) rather than kanónes / κανόνες ( rules ), but almost all Orthodox conform to them.

The ricercars and canons have been realised in various ways.

His celebrated canons, published in London, about 1800, edited by Pio Cianchettini, show him to have had a strong sense of musical humour.

Dioceses have some discretion about the procedure and membership for the ecclesiastical court, but most rules and procedure is established church-wide by the national canons.

Theodoret would not have inserted the " apostolical canons " and those of Sardica, and the style has no resemblance to his.

Aphoristic collections, sometimes known as wisdom literature, have a prominent place in the canons of several ancient societies, such as the Sutra literature of India, the Biblical Ecclesiastes, Islamic Hadith, The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, Hesiod's Works and Days, the Delphic maxims, and Epictetus ' Handbook.

When the First Council of Constantinople met in 381, Maximus's claim to the see of Constantinople was unanimously rejected, the last of its original four canons decreeing " that he neither was nor is a bishop, nor are they who have been ordained by him in any rank of the clergy ".

Emperor Justinian I ( died 565 ) ordered that the children of priests, deacons and subdeacons who, " in disregard of the sacred canons, have children by women with whom, according to sacerdotal regulation, they may not cohabit " be considered illegitimate on the same level as those " procreated in incest and in nefarious nuptials ".

But that the law of continence and purity, so pleasing to God, may become more general among persons constituted in sacred orders, we decree that bishops, priests, deacons, subdeacons, canons regular, monks, and professed clerics ( conversi ) who, transgressing the holy precept, have dared to contract marriage, shall be separated.

Since then, these relics have been conserved by the canons of the Metropolitan Basilica Chapter, who are in charge of venerations, and guarded by the Knights of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

The college was to have six secular canons — one a dean — and four clerks, but he died before his intention was actually carried out.