canonist

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The changes to the Code of Canon Law took 11 years to develop and included input from canonist and criminal law experts.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2021

Astigueta, a Jesuit canonist at the Gregorian, has said such institutional secrecy surrounding abuse case harms the development and practice of the church’s own law.

From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2019

The book appears to owe a considerable debt to a scholarly but not widely circulated 1967 work, Divorce and Remarriage, by a U.S. canonist, Monsignor Victor J. Pospishil.

From Time Magazine Archive

One American canonist in Rome notes that the law does not work anyway, since it frequently proves no deterrent to civil divorce.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gratian, a celebrated canonist of the 12th century, born at Chiusi, Tuscany; was a Benedictine monk at Bologna, and compiled the "Decretum Gratiani" between 1139 and 1142.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin