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The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches is the title of the 1990 codification of the common portions of the Canon Law for the 22 of the 23 sui iuris Churches in the Catholic Church. The Roman or Latin rite Church is guided by its own particular Canons. The 22 sui iuris Churches who collectively make up the Eastern Catholic Churches have been invited by the Vatican to codify their own particular laws and submit them to Rome so that there may be a full, complete directory of all religious law within the Catholic communion.

Contents 1 Titles 1.1 Preliminary Canons 1.2 The Rights and Obligations of All the Christian Faithful 1.3 Churches Sui Iuris and Rites 1.4 The Supreme Authority of the Church 1.5 The Patriarchal Churches 1.6 The Major Archiepiscopal Churches 1.7 Metropolitan Churches and Other Churches Sui Iuris 1.8 Eparchies and Bishops 1.9 Exarchies and Exarchs 1.10 Assemblies of Hierarchs of Several Churches Sui Iuris 1.11 Clerics 1.12 Lay Persons 1.13 Monks and Other Religious as well as Members of Other Institutes of Consecrated Life 1.14 Associations of the Christian Faithful 1.15 Evangelization of Nations 1.16 The Ecclesiastical Magisterium 1.17 Divine Worship and Especially the Sacraments 1.18 Baptized Non-Catholics Coming into Full Communion with the Catholic Church 1.19 Ecumenism or Fostering the Unity of Christians 1.20 Persons and Juridic Acts 1.21 Offices 1.22 The Power of Governance 1.23 Recourse Against Administrative Decrees 1.24 The Temporal Goods of the Church 1.25 Trials in General 1.26 The Contentious Trial 1.27 Certain Special Procedures 1.28 Penal Sanctions in the Church 1.29 The Procedure for Imposing Penalties 1.30 Law, Custom, and Administrative Acts 1.31 Prescription and the Computation of Time 2 External links

The text of the CCEO is divided into 31 sections, 30 titles and a section of preliminary canons.

The preliminary canons deal with scope and continuity, what is affected by the CCEO and how prior legislation and customs shall be handled. The canons in this section are numbered 1-6.

This section defines the christian faithful (those who are baptised), the catechumens, and those in full communion.

It expresses that the faithful have the obligation to maintain the faith and profess it openly, to maintain communion, to promote the growth of the Church, to listen to their pastors, to let their pastors know their own opinions on matters of the good of the Church, to not call their private associations Catholic unless approved by the competent ecclesiastical authority, not to unlawfully damage someone's good reputation or privacy, and to help with the needs of the church and promote social justice including providing for aid to the poor from their own resources.

It also expresses various rights of the faithful.

The canons in this section are numbered 7-26.

• Codex canonum ecclesiarum orientalium, original text in Latin
• "Code of canons of Oriental Churchs", English translation