SYMPOSIUM ON CODE OF CANONS OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES

VATICAN CITY, NOV 16, 2001 (VIS) - An international symposium organized by the Congregation for the Oriental Churches will be held at the Vatican from November 19 to 23, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary this year of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches which came into force on October 1, 1991.

The symposium, entitled "Law of the Church - Instrument of Charity," will be presided over by His Beatitude Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud, prefect of the congregation. The vice presidents are Archbishop Julian Herranz, president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts (which interprets both the Eastern Code and the Code of Canon Law), and Bishop Emilio Eid, judge of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature. During the last phase of preparation, Bishop Eid was the vice president of the pontifical commission which prepared this Code.

According to a communique published today, the title of the symposium, in which over 300 academics from throughout the world will participate, is inspired "by the words spoken by John Paul II on the occasion of the promulgation of the Code. ... 'May this Code become a vehiculum (instrument) of that charity which ... must be profoundly rooted in the soul of every human creature."

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