biography
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Gratian
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also known as Franciscus Gratianus
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pronunciation:
[grayshian]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (12th-c)
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| biography:
| Italian jurist and Carmaldulensian monk of Bologna. Between 1139 and 1150 he compiled the collection of canon law known as the Decretum Gratiani, which became the basic text for all studies of canon law, and remained the first part of the traditional body of canon law in the Roman Catholic Church until 1917. |
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