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How many canons were included in the 1917 Code of Canon Law?
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Council of Nicaea in 325, depicted in a Byzantine fresco in the basilica of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law, which was promulgated by Pope Benedict XV, included 2,414 canons, or norms, organized under topical headings in five books.1