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Church Council Meeting - Highland Park Baptist Church - Lenoir City,  Tennessee

 

October 28th, 2020 Meeting of the Evangelical Catholic Church

 

Paula Helsby
Bishop James Alan Wilkowski

This follow up meeting was called to consider amendments to Canons 16 and 17 to the Code of Canon Law

Bishop Wilkowski proposes the following amendment to Canon 16:

16.12  Any bishop of this jurisdiction may assist another bishop or religious superior of this jurisdiction or of a another canonically recognized jurisdiction with the ordinations of their candidates for the deaconate or priesthood through the formal issuance of a proper Dimissorial Letter.
 

Bishop Wilkowski proposes the amendment to Canon 17.7
 

 
17.7  The diocesan Bishop must always foster vocations to the priesthood, deaconate and religious life.
 

P1  The diocesan Bishop, for proper reasons, may delegate the ordinations of their candidates for the deaconate and priesthood to another bishop of this jurisdiction or to a competent bishop of another jurisdiction in a recognized canonical relationship with this jurisdiction through the instrument of a  proper Dimissorial Letter.

 

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