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Suppression (Dissolution) of Parishes Pursuant to the Provisions of the Canon Law

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32084/tkp.9457  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2025-11-25

Abstract

In Canon 515 § 2 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, the ecclesiastical legislator stipulates that “[...] the abolition of parishes, [...] belongs exclusively to the diocesan bishop, who may not [...] abolish them, [...] without hearing the council of priests.” Although a parish, as a defined community of the faithful, is erected on a permanent basis in the particular Church, the legislator himself provides for the possibility of its liquidation when the appropriate canonical prerequisites for this occur with the prescribed procedure. The subject of this submission is the issue of the liquidation of a parish in terms of the norms of canon law. The article is an attempt to answer the questions – problems: whether there is the possibility of liquidation of a parish and what are the reasons for this, which ecclesiastical authority is authorized to abolish a parish, and what is the case of the procedure associated with this act.

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