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The loss of the church office

Summary/Abstract: There are many services, tasks and functions in the Church. The ecclesiastical office is a task established permanently from a divine or ecclesiastical provision for the attainment of a spiritual goal. Essential elements of a church office are church tasks, divine or ecclesiastical estab¬lishments, constitution of the office, spiritual purpose and the entity performing the office. The good of the Church’s community and the dignity of ecclesiastical offices demand that their exercise be stable. However, the principle of stability of the office is not absolute. It is worth recalling what a “church office” is and how it can be lost. Can be indicate several possibilities of losing the church office. These are: loss of office by the nature of things, resignation, transfer, removal, deprivation. Analyzes of the legal provisions regarding entrusting to the ecclesiastical office, its requirements and conditions have already been presented. In this article an important issue is the loss of the ecclesiastical office.

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