Women Canon Lawyers

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I was wondering when lay women were allowed to be canon lawyers?

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Of course- one doesn’t need to be ordained to be a canon lawyer.
 
I understand that lay women can now be canon lawyers. That’s not my question. When was this allowed before 1983 or after? Just wanted to know when the change occurred.

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I could be very wrong, but I would imagine that female canon lawyers have been allowed as long as lay men have (from a Church point of view)

The only time the sex of a person comes into play is for ordination & minor orders (plus you can’t marry someone from your own sex).

So as long as lay canon lawyers have been allowed, there would have been no reason not to allow female ones. Now, that doesn’t mean women have been actually doing as long as lay men, but technically, there shouldn’t have been anything preventing them.
 
OP, I doubt that this was ever a matter of canon law. At one time, many women’s religious orders had canonists. I suspect that when you say “lay women,” you mean non religious. All women are technically “lay women,” as only men are ordained clergy.
 
The earliest female canon lawyer I have heard of (which doesn’t mean there were none before this but I’m sure they were at least very rare prior to this…they still are, relatively speaking) got her degree in 1968 or 1969.

Dan
 
Not sure when. You could ask @(name removed by moderator), she’s a current canonical student.

The vast majority of canonists are priests. There are a number who are consecrated women, and a number who are deacons.

Last year our Tribunal hired a lay woman, our first. The others are all clerics, three deacons and a bunch of priests.

Canon law schools are rare, and the education expensive. Most students are sponsored by a diocese or religious order.

Deacon Christopher
 
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