IL DIVORZIO DEL MATRIMONIO NELLE CHIESE ORTODOSSE
THE DIVORCE OF MARRIAGE IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCHES

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the first part of this article is to expose the doctrine of Orthodox theologians on divorce. In general, they acknowledge the indissolubility of marriage as one of the attributes of marriage itself, but at the same time they admit exceptions in the praxis. They justify the divorce variously, but generally it can be said that diverse causes of divorce are different modes of “death” of the marriage. In the second part, the article introduces and enumerates the various causes of divorce in the Orthodox doctrine, set by Justinian’s Novell 117 and then adopted by the canon digest Nomocanon in 14 titles.

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