The Manifesto of Ancient Church Law and the Canonization Process of the Roman Empire: Kopsavilkums. Senās Baznīcas tiesību manifests un Romas impērijas kanonizācijas process

Canon law as the regulatory instrument of the established church,
which turned the latter into an institutional body, manifested itself at the
same time by becoming a bridge between the state (within the meaning
then current) and religious communities (the society within the meaning
then current), where the representatives of these two dimensions – both
those of the spiritual dimension and those of the secular one, came to have
as if compulsorily, such legal relations between themselves; thus the ad-
ministrative church became thoroughly comparable to modern state insti-
tutions within their material and existential meaning or, in other words,
existed in a state of self-reproduction and legal development and within
the framework of self-justification.
This aim, according to the political and dogmatic scheme then exist-
ing, resulted in the creation of a body of administrative law as the first
legal manifestation of this kind known in Western Europe. At the same
time, this body was a common denominator or a recipe for ensuring strong
management by combining mundane things with spiritual ones without
discriminating between them and by replacing intangible, incomprehen-
sible things with Christian values but in particular with a discipline based
on strict regulations.