Raymond of Penyafort was a Catalan friar with the Dominicans who was a canon lawyer. He compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws that remained a major part of Church law until the 1917 Code of Canon Law abrogated it. He was canonized by Pope Clement VIII in 1601 and is the patron saint of canon lawyers.

01-07

• canon lawyers
• all types of lawyers
• Barcelona
• Kingdom of Navarre

c. 1175

1275-01-06

canonized

29 April 1601

Pope Clement VIII

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