Canon law for the Eastern Catholic churches
This article is about the canon law traditions of the 23 sui juris Eastern Catholic Churches. For an overview of the canon law tradition of the entire Catholic Church, both Eastern and Latin, see Canon law of the Catholic Church. For the law of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, see Canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The Eastern Catholic canon law is the law of the 23 Catholic sui juris (autonomous) particular churches of the Eastern Catholic tradition. Eastern Catholic canon law includes both the common tradition among all Eastern Catholic Churches, now chiefly contained in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, as well as the particular law proper to each individual sui juris particular Eastern Catholic Church. Oriental canon law is distinguished from Latin canon law, which developed along a separate line in the remnants of the Western Roman Empire, and is now chiefly codified in the 1983 Code of Canon Law.