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The Church Fathers · c. 375–380
The Apostolic Canons
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What it is
Eighty-five short rules on ordination, clerical conduct, excommunication, and the church calendar, transmitted as the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions.
Why it lasted
Received as authoritative by the Eastern churches and still cited in Orthodox canon law.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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