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When did Pope John Paul II promulgate the 1983 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.
Pope John Paul II signed the second Code of Canon Law on January 25, 1983, and it subsequently took effect on November 27, 1983.1