Canon law

Quality:

Canon law - ordinances and regulations made by Church leadership for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. Article “Canon law” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Italian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Canon law”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1475 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 114 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 24001 times in all languages (7059^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1122 in October 2012
• Global: #360 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3022 in May 2022
• Global: #17898 in May 2025

There are 46 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Italian (it) Diritto canonico		60.6653
2	English (en) Canon law		54.7478
3	Slovak (sk) Kánonické právo		48.468
4	German (de) Kanonisches Recht		45.4217
5	Portuguese (pt) Direito canónico		43.5435
6	Croatian (hr) Kanonsko pravo		35.3476
7	Hungarian (hu) Egyházjog		35.0876
8	Chinese (zh) 教会法		34.2346
9	Finnish (fi) Kanoninen oikeus		32.5733
10	Tamil (ta) திருச்சபைச் சட்டத் தொகுப்பு		25.5894

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Canon law		3 536 860
2	Spanish (es) Derecho canónico		1 350 457
3	French (fr) Droit canonique		806 467
4	Portuguese (pt) Direito canónico		653 864
5	German (de) Kanonisches Recht		643 779
6	Polish (pl) Prawo kanoniczne		542 373
7	Italian (it) Diritto canonico		524 022
8	Russian (ru) Каноническое право		245 262
9	Dutch (nl) Canoniek recht		199 591
10	Japanese (ja) 教会法		182 213

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Canon law		7 116
2	Spanish (es) Derecho canónico		3 605
3	French (fr) Droit canonique		1 600
4	German (de) Kanonisches Recht		1 331
5	Polish (pl) Prawo kanoniczne		781
6	Italian (it) Diritto canonico		748
7	Japanese (ja) 教会法		538
8	Portuguese (pt) Direito canónico		484
9	Russian (ru) Каноническое право		413
10	Dutch (nl) Canoniek recht		367

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Canon law		302
2	Italian (it) Diritto canonico		118
3	French (fr) Droit canonique		116
4	German (de) Kanonisches Recht		102
5	Spanish (es) Derecho canónico		77
6	Dutch (nl) Canoniek recht		73
7	Portuguese (pt) Direito canónico		66
8	Polish (pl) Prawo kanoniczne		65
9	Japanese (ja) 教会法		48
10	Russian (ru) Каноническое право		43

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Canon law		2
2	Arabic (ar) قانون كنسي		1
3	Spanish (es) Derecho canónico		1
4	Basque (eu) Zuzenbide kanoniko		1
5	Italian (it) Diritto canonico		1
6	Romanian (ro) Drept canonic		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Kanonsko pravo		1
8	Belarusian (be) Кананічнае права		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Канонично право		0
10	Catalan (ca) Dret canònic		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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