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Also Known As jus canonicum

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Vacarius
Roman law scholar
St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
Gregory IX
pope
Hincmar of Reims
French theologian
John IV of Odzun
Armenian Orthodox catholicos
Hugh of Saint-Cher
French cardinal
Guillaume Durand
French scholar
Gratian
Italian scholar
John Scholasticus
Syrian theologian and jurist
Matthew Blastares
Greek theologian and scholar
Saint Ivo of Chartres
French bishop

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