Pope Pius XII Reforms of Eastern Canon Law - Decentralization From Rome

Decentralization From Rome

Decentralized authority and increased the independence of the united Churches were aimed at in the Corpis Iuris Canonici (CIC) reform. In its new constitutions, Eastern Patriarchs were made almost independent from Rome (CIC Orientalis, 1957) These reforms and writings of Pope Pius XII were intended to establish Eastern Orientals as equal parts of the mystical body of Christ, as pronounced in the encyclical Mystici Corporis.