For example, canon 1137 of the Roman Catholic Church's Code of Canon Law specifically affirms the legitimacy of a child born to a marriage that is declared null following the child's birth.

In a further decree, later known as the canon 28, the bishops declared the See of Constantinople ( New Rome ) equal in honor and authority to Rome.

Canon 28 grants equal privileges () to Constantinople as of Rome because Constantinople is the New Rome as renewed by canon 36 of the Quinisext Council.

This long running conflict widened with the third canon of the First Council of Constantinople which granted the see of Constantinople primacy over the older sees of Alexandria and Antioch.

Then, in the time of Pope Gregory VII ( 1073 – 1085 ), canonists who in the Investiture Controversy quoted the prohibition in canon 22 of the Council of Constantinople of 869 – 870 against laymen influencing the appointment of prelates elevated this council to the rank of ecumenical council.

Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.

The canon which declared Constantinople equal in privileges but second in honor to Rome was also probably not the point of contention as it differed little from the pronouncements of earlier councils.

The first general council at Constantinople in 381 in canon VII and the third general council at Constantinople in 680 in canon XCV declared the baptism of Sabellius to be invalid, which indicates that Sabellianism was still extant.

In 381, the First Council of Constantinople declared that " The Bishop of Constantinople shall have the primacy of honour after the Bishop of Rome, because it is New Rome " ( canon iii ).

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 established Constantinople as a patriarchate with ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Asia Minor ( the dioceses of Asiane and Pontus ) and Thrace as well as over the barbaric territories, non-converted lands outside the defined area of the Western Patriarchate ( Old Rome ) and the other three patriarchates, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, gave it appellate jurisdiction extraterritorially over canon law decisions by the other patriarchs and granted it honours equal to those belonging to the first Christian see, Rome, in terms of primacy, Rome retaining however its seniority ( canon xxviii ).

Its divisions are marked off by Homer, Plato, Jesus, Constantine, and the capture of Constantinople in 1453, while a sixth section is devoted to canon law, jurisprudence and medicine.

The Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ), which gave special authority to the see of Constantinople, as being " the residence of the emperor and the Senate ," still did not use the term " patriarch ", but in its ninth canon still spoke only of " exarchs ".

By the famous 28th canon, passed at the conclusion of the council, Constantinople was made equal in dignity with Rome ( Labbe, iv.

Balsamon cites this without naming the author, in his notes on the first canon of the Trullan council of Constantinople.

The 3rd canon declares that, "... the Bishop of Constantinople shall hold the first rank after the bishop of Rome, because Constantinople is the new Rome.

Maximus was selected and ordained, in violation of canon law, by Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople, without the official sanction of the clergy or people of Antioch.

The First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) decreed in a canon of disputed validity: " The Bishop of Constantinople, however, shall have the prerogative of honour after the Bishop of Rome ; because Constantinople is New Rome.

Steven Tuell argues that having Chronicles as the last book in the canon is appropriate since it " attempts to distill and summarize the entire history of God's dealings with God's people.

It is generally accepted canon that Romulan females are equal to males, both having equal ability to rise through the ranks of the military.

He spoke before the Evangelical Alliance and Episcopal convention, and was the means of having a new canon confirmed, to the effect that Protestant Episcopal clergyman should at least once a year preach a sermon on cruelty and mercy to animals.

The seventeenth canon condemns the Christians who have either committed bestiality or had sexual intercourse with a leprous woman, while themselves being leprous, to having to pray with the wintering people-i. e.

Vernon Parrington, composing a canon of American literature, condemned James for having cut himself off from America.

The Epistle of Jude contains a verifiable citation from the Book of Enoch, which is not a part of the canon for most Christian churches, which has " Enoch the Seventh from Adam " having " prophesied to " false teachers.

Techniques in queer studies include the search for queer influences and themes in works of literature, the analysis of political currents linking the oppression of women, racialized groups, and disadvantaged classes with that of queer people, and the search for queer figures and trends in history that queer studies scholars view as having been ignored and excluded from the canon.

The two publishers have used the multiverse concept to fix problems arising from integrating characters from other publishers into their own canon, and from having major serial protagonists having continuous histories lasting, as in the case of Superman, over 70 years.

Non-resident canons led also to the institution of vicars choral, each canon having his own vicar, who sat in his stall in his absence ( see Cathedral ).

The canon that is chanted on these days is a " Triode ", i. e., composed of three odes instead of the usual nine odes ( the canon of Holy and Great Tuesday is a " Diode ", having only two odes ).

Orthros of Great and Holy Thursday does not follow the format of Great Lent ( with the singular exception of chanting Alleluia in place of God is the Lord ), but is celebrated as outside Lent, having a complete canon.

Thus, each man was able to do what he pleased with the series, while still having one another's work distinct and be considered canon.

Viner is further known for having added the terms " trade creation " and " trade diversion " to the canon of economics in 1950.

These later works are generally accepted as the weaker part of his canon, his best cultural criticism having shown itself in the form of his literary critical practices.

This is only necessary in a Protestant frame of mind, however, as Catholics see the Catholic Church as having God-given ability to determine the New Testament canon, which it did in the Synod of Rome, the Synod of Carthage, and reaffirmed at the Council of Trent.

Although his orations were placed fifth in the Alexandrian canon, still we do not hear of any of the grammarians having written commentaries on him, except Didymus of Alexandria.

He proposed selecting the greatest books of the canon, complete and unabridged, having Hutchins and Adler edit them for publishing by Encyclopædia Britannica.

This system of non-residence led also to the institution of vicars choral, each canon having his or her own vicar, who sat in his or her stall in his or her absence, and when the canon was present, in the stall immediately below, on the second form.

In 1858 the Forte do Bom Jesus, having been almost completely abandoned except for a canon, was requalified in order to house the new jail.

In a game totally unrelated to James Bond canon, killer7, the main character, Garcian Smith, having just lost his team of heroic assassins to a new type of enemy, must use a Golden Gun to finish the team's mission.

The class of the Black Star has never been stated on screen, however, canon sources have never mentioned the Minbari having a warship class larger than the Sharlin.

He was the first to reject with sufficient proof the equal value of the Old and New Testaments, the uniform authority of all parts of the Bible, the divine authority of the traditional canon of Scripture, the inspiration and supposed correctness of the text of the Old and New Testaments, and, generally, the identification of revelation with Scripture.

David W. Solomons set this passage as a canon for 4 equal voices.

Some of these were collected into a definitive canon known as the Nālāyira Divya Prabandha (" divine composition of 4000 verses "), by Nathamuni in the 10th century, and came to be seen as a source of revelation equal in authority to the Vedas in the community.