Canon Law
The Code of Canon Law devotes to religious 103 canons arranged in eight chapters:
- Religious houses and their erection and suppression
- The governance of institutes
- The admission of candidates and the formation of members
- The obligations and rights of institutes and their members
- The apostolate of institutes
- Separation of members from the institute
- Religious raised to the episcopate
- Conferences of major superiors
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