Wydalenie ipso facto z instytutu zakonnego
Dismissal ipso facto from the Religious Institute

Summary/Abstract: The dismissal of a member ipso facto from the Religious Institute which quite often is referred to in the Canon Law literature (a iure) is automatic and without the intervention of any ecclesial or religious authority. It concerns perpetually or temporarily professed religious. It is effective the moment a religious commits one of two serious offences against Church Law as enumerated in Canon Law 694 §1. A member is to be considered automatically dismissed if he/she: has notoriously defected from the Catholic faith o has contracted marriage or attempted it, even only civilly. The religious is no longer a member of the Institute through the fact of the offence stated in this Canon. However, the major superior with his council, after collecting the evidence about offences done by religious is obliged to issue without delay a declaration of the fact so that the dismissal is juridically established. According to canon 694, §2, “in these cases, after the proof has been collected, the major superior with the council is to issue without any delay, a declaration of fact so that the dismissal is established juridically.” This act is a formal declaration which confirms the fact of the offence committed by religious and at the same time is a legal confirmation of his dismissal at the moment the offence was committed, and before the declaration of the major superior and his council was made.

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