Editing Canon law (section)

===Code for the Eastern Churches===
{{main|Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches}}
{{see also|Eastern Catholic canon law}}
The law of the [[Eastern Catholic Churches]] in full communion with the Roman papacy was in much the same state as that of the Latin Church before 1917; much more diversity in legislation existed in the various Eastern Catholic Churches. Each had its own special law, in which custom still played an important part. One major difference in Eastern Europe however, specifically in the Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, was in regards to divorce. Divorce started to slowly be allowed in specific instances such as adultery being committed, abuse, abandonment, impotence, and barrenness being the primary justifications for divorce. Eventually, the church began to allow remarriage to occur (for both spouses) post-divorce.<ref name=":0" /> In 1929 Pius XI informed the Eastern Churches of his intention to work out a Code for the whole of the Eastern Church. The [[eastern canonical reforms of Pius XII|publication of these Codes]] for the Eastern Churches regarding the law of persons was made between 1949 through 1958<ref>"In 1959, John XXIII, announced for the first time his decision to reform the existing corpus of canonical legislation"https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/cic_index_en.html</ref> but finalized nearly 30 years later.<ref name=Metz/>

The first [[1917 Code of Canon Law|Code of Canon Law (1917)]] was exclusively for the [[Latin Church]], with application to the Eastern Churches only "in cases which pertain to their very nature".<ref>Canon 1, [[1917 Code of Canon Law]].</ref> After the [[Second Vatican Council]] (1962 - 1965), the Vatican produced the ''[[Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches]]'' which became the first code of Eastern Catholic Canon Law.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Canon_Law.html|first=Don|last=Ford|title=Canon Law Research Guide|work=[[GlobaLex]]|date=June 2007|access-date=2024-11-15}}</ref>