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  1. www.usccb.org › offices › public-affairsCatholic Terms | USCCB

    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.

  2. www.catholic.com › magazine › print-editionWhen Parishes Merge or Close | Catholic Answers Magazine

    • Who owns Church property?
    • What is the difference between a parish and a church? People use the expression parish and church interchangeably, but they are very distinct realities.
    • How do parishes merge? Parishes are increasingly having to address the question of whether or not to merge. The declining number of priests to serve the faithful, as well as shifting populations, have caused dioceses throughout the world, especially in Europe and North America, to consider restructuring.
    • What happens with the bank accounts and property in the case of merger? Two canons in the Code of Canon Law oversee the method of merging the juridic person that is a parish.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Parish_(Catholic_Church)Parish (Catholic Church) - Wikipedia

    In the Catholic Church, a parish (Latin: parochia) is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: parochus), under the authority of the diocesan bishop.

  5. www.vatican.va › archive › cod-iuris-canoniciCode of Canon Law - Book IV - Function of the Church: Part ...

    CHAPTER I. CHURCHES. Can. 1214 By the term church is understood a sacred building designated for divine worship to which the faithful have the right of entry for the exercise, especially the public exercise, of divine worship. Can. 1215 §1. No church is to be built without the express written consent of the diocesan bishop. §2.

  6. www.vatican.va › archive › cod-iuris-canoniciCode of Canon Law: Table of Contents - Vatican

    • BOOK I. GENERAL NORMS. TITLE I. ECCLESIASTICAL LAWS (Cann. 7 - 22) TITLE II. CUSTOM (Cann. 23 - 28) TITLE III. GENERAL DECREES AND INSTRUCTIONS (Cann. 29 - 34)
    • BOOK II. THE PEOPLE OF GOD. PART I. THE CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL (Cann. 204 - 207) TITLE I. THE OBLIGATIONS AND RIGHTS OF ALL THE CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL (Cann. 208 - 223)
    • BOOK III. THE TEACHING FUNCTION OF THE CHURCH (747 - 755) TITLE I. THE MINISTRY OF THE DIVINE WORD (Cann. 756 - 780) CHAPTER I. THE PREACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD.
    • BOOK IV. FUNCTION OF THE CHURCH (Cann. 834 - 848) PART I. THE SACRAMENTS. TITLE I. BAPTISM (Cann. 849 - 878) CHAPTER I. THE CELEBRATION OF BAPTISM. CHAPTER II.

  7. www.bridgeportdiocese.org › wp-content › uploadsII. THE PARISH: MEMBERSHIP, STRUCTURE, & LEADERSHIP

    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).

  8. www.catholicculture.org › culture › libraryA Brief Description of the Government of the Catholic Church

    The Vatican is also referred to as the Holy See, which can designate either the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) or the entire administrative apparatus which supports the Pope, in effect the...