Canon law in the legal system of the Byzantine empire

The article concerns analysis of relationship of the canon and secular law taking into consideration different interaction models of the State and the Christian Church. The Byzantine legal heritage - the new research subject which arose on a joint of researches of the international political and cultural ties in Europe on the one hand and political and legal development of Byzantium with another. Its statement is connected with the present stage of development of jurisprudence, after the works devoted to disclosure of a social and political system of the Byzantine Empire.