Metropolitan’s Authority in the 1983 Code of Canon Law

Journal Title: Kościół i Prawo - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2

Abstract

The 1983 Code of Canon Law provides that a church province comprises neighboring particular Churches. Church provinces are created to promote the common pastoral activities of neighboring dioceses and to foster the mutual relations of diocesan bishops. The authorities a Church province are: the metropolitan and the provincial synod which is composed of a conference of bishops and other representatives of particular Churches constituting the same province.

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Joanna Przybysławska

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  • EP ID EP431661
  • DOI 10.18290/kip.2018.7.2-5
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Joanna Przybysławska (2018). Metropolitan’s Authority in the 1983 Code of Canon Law. Kościół i Prawo, 7(2), 63-77. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-431661