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Collection of Canons

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  • In John Scholasticus

    545, John compiled the “Collection of Canons,” the earliest catalog of Byzantine Church legislation that has been preserved. It collated imperial ecclesiastical statutes with those of the 4th-century theologian-legislator Basil of Cappadocia. At Constantinople he composed the “Collection of 87 Chapters,” a synthesis of the emperor Justinian’s supplementary legislation…

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