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Canon law jurists

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)

Pope Leo XIV is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City since May 2025. He is the first pope to have been born in the United States, the first to hold either U.S. or Peruvian citizenship, the first from the Order of Saint Augustine, and the second from the Americas.

pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758

William of Tyre

medieval prelate and chronicler, archbishop of Tyre

Dionysius Exiguus

Byzantine saint

Raymond Leo Burke

American Catholic cardinal

Pietro Gasparri

cardinal of the Catholic Church (1852–1934)

Raymond of Penyafort

Dominican Master General, archbishop and saint, catholic jurist from Catalonia

Ivo of Kermartin

Breton priest and saint (1253-1303)

Regino of Prüm

Benedictine monk, chronicler and music theorist

Italian Roman-Catholic Church jurist (12th century)

Venetian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer

Theodore Balsamon

Byzantine legal scholar and Greek-Orthodox patriarch of Antioch

Gervase of Tilbury

English canonist and writer

Martín de Azpilcueta

Spanish theologian and economist

Doctor of Both Laws

scholar with a doctorate in both civil and church law

Francesco Zabarella

Italian cardinal

Ivo of Chartres

French abbot and bishop of Chartres (c.1040–1116)

Salvatore J. Cordileone

American Roman Catholic bishop

Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder

Italian humanist scholar (1370-1444)

Urbano Navarrete Cortés

Catholic cardinal (1920-2010)

Pelagio Galvani

Leonese cardinal and canon lawyer (c.1165–1230)

Charles J. Scicluna

Roman Catholic prelate

Guillaume Durand

Burchard of Worms

Roman Catholic bishop

Eike von Repgow

author of the Sachsenspiegel, the oldest legal book written in German

János Scheffler

Hungarian bishop (1887-1952)

Albert of Vercelli

Bishop and canon lawyer

Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina

Italian writer and jurist (1664-1718)

Antonio Agustín y Albanell

Canon law historian (1517-1586)

Henry of Segusio

Italian cardinal

Branda da Castiglione

Italian papal legate and judge (1350-1443)

Antoni Stankiewicz

Catholic bishop (1935–2021)

Felice Cavagnis

Catholic cardinal (1841–1906)

Luis Rafael Zarama

Catholic bishop of Raleigh, North Carolina

Bérenger Fredoli

Catholic cardinal (1250–1323)

Catholic cardinal (1832–1899)

Spanish jurist and academic

Robert of Courçon

English cardinal; (1160/1170–1219)

Adhémar Esmein

French jurist (1848–1913)

Novella d'Andrea

Italian legal scholar (1312–?)

Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio

Catholic cardinal

Sicard of Cremona

Italian historian

Domenico Capranica

Catholic cardinal

Camillo Tarquini

Italian archaeologist and cardinal (1810-1874)

Paweł Włodkowic

Polish academic

Catholic cardinal (1245–1313)

Francesco da Barberino

Zeger Bernhard van Espen

position within the Roman Catholic Church

Justus Henning Böhmer

German jurist (1674-1749)

'''Nicolò de' Tudeschi (Panormitanus''') (b. at Catania, Sicily, in 1386; d. at Palermo, 24 February 1445) was an Italian Benedictine canonist.

Alexios Aristenus

12th-century Byzantine priest and writer

Agostino Valier

Italian cardinal

Fulgentius Ferrandus

6th century African Church theologian

Welsh bishop of Cassano all'Jonio and Vatican diplomat (1533-1595)

Alvarus Pelagius

Spanish lawyer and bishop

Nomophylax (ancient Greece)

The nomophylax (, "guardian of the laws") was a senior Byzantine judicial office of the 11th–15th centuries.

Jean de La Rochetaillée

Catholic cardinal

thumb|The Summa Decretorum of Huguccio Huguccio (Hugh of Pisa, Uguccio) (died 1210) was an Italian canon lawyer.