Problem urzędowego nazewnictwa jednostek organizacyjnych Kościoła Katolickiego
The The problem of official names of organizational entities of the Catholic Church

Summary/Abstract: Determining and changing the name of an ecclesiastical organizational entity is the exclusive competence of an ecclesiastical authority (e.g., a diocesan bishop or a higher religious superior), from which a competent authority of the state administration (a voivode or a minister) accepts a written notification of the establishment of the entity or changes in its structure and of the person acting as its legal representative. Based on this document, the state authority may confirm the name of the ecclesiastical organizational entity by means of a certificate. The paper presents the circumstances and causes of discrepancies in the official names of parishes, monasteries and religious houses between the data confirmed by the voivode, those appearing in the REGON database and those recorded in the land registers. The analysis reaffirms the need to introduce a uniform form of registering or recording ecclesiastical legal persons. It is also claimed that unifying the names of ecclesiastical organizational entities used in various databases is possible without systemic solutions. The paper concludes by identifying the measures that can be taken by church superiors, administrators of specific organizational entities and administrative authorities in this regard

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