1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
APOSTOLIC CANONS, a collection of eighty-five rule* for the regulation of clerical life, appended to the eighth book of the Apostolical Constitutions (q.v.). They are couched in brief legislative form though on no definite plan, and deal with the vexed questions of ecclesiastical discipline as they were raised towards the end of the 4th century. At least half of the canons arc derived from earlier constitutions, and probably not many of them are the actual productions of the compiler, whose aim was to gloss over th…
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- Vol. 2, pp. 201-201