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- As defined by Canon law, the law of the Roman Catholic Church, a Parish is “a certain community of Christ’s faithful stably established within a particular Church [diocese], whose pastoral care, under the authority of the diocesan Bishop, is entrusted to a parish priest as its proper Pastor” (Canon 515).
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As defined by Canon law, the law of the Roman Catholic Church, a Parish is “a certain community of Christ’s faithful stably established within a particular Church [diocese], whose pastoral care, under the authority of the diocesan Bishop, is entrusted to a parish priest as its proper Pastor” (Canon 515).
Can. 388 §1. After the diocesan bishop has taken possession of the diocese, he must apply a Mass for the people entrusted to him each Sunday and on the other holy days of obligation in his region. §2. The bishop himself must personally celebrate and apply a Mass for the people on the days mentioned in §1.
Unless the law provides otherwise, a quasi-parish is equivalent to a parish; a quasi-parish is a definite community of the Christian faithful in a particular church, entrusted to a priest as its proper pastor but not yet erected as a parish because of particular circumstances.
A code of ecclesiastical laws governing the Catholic Church. In the Latin or Western Church, the governing code is the 1983 Code of Canon Law, a revision of the 1917 Code of Canon Law. A separate but parallel Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, issued in 1990, governs the Eastern Catholic churches.
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Can. 209 §1. The Christian faithful, even in their own manner of acting, are always obliged to maintain communion with the Church. §2. With great diligence they are to fulfill the duties which they owe to the universal Church and the particular church to which they belong according to the prescripts of the law.
Learn More. Canon is the Greek word for rule, norm, standard or measure. It is used in several ways in church language: The canon of Sacred Scripture is the list of book...
Canon law provides no formal guidelines for choosing a name for a parish or quasi-parish; however, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued guidelines in 1999 that it may commonly be the same as the name of the parish church.
