Abstract
The legislator in the can. 293 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law states: “A cleric who loses the clerical state cannot be enrolled among clerics again except through a rescript of the Apostolic See”. The cleric, who left the clerical state, accepted the lay state, and over the years realized that this decision was wrong, rediscovered his lost identity of a priest, and is in the position of a humble petitioner asking for the grace of readmission to the clerical state, can be given this grace from the Church. However, he must realize that he has no right to be readmitted to the clerical state. If he humbly asks for this grace, the Church will consider all the necessary circumstances, and can grant him this grace.
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