Metropolitan court

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As Metropolitan court is Offizialat (Church dish) in a Catholic archbishopric with the seat of a Metropolitan designated. As a court of justice, it decides in the first instance on the cases of the archdiocese and in the second instance as a court of appeal for the official courts of the other dioceses of the ecclesiastical province .

The court of appeal for the decisions of the Metropolitan Court in the first instance is a specific ecclesiastical court in one of the dioceses belonging to the ecclesiastical province. The third instance in Germany is usually the metropolitan court of a neighboring ecclesiastical province by virtue of papal decree. The Metropolitan Court of Bamberg is the third instance for legal matters in the ecclesiastical province of Munich-Freising, and the Metropolitan Court of Freiburg is the third instance for legal matters in the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The last instance in all cases is the Rota Romana , which exercises the Pope's jurisdiction and whose competences are derived from can. 1444 CIC surrendered.

The most important task of the metropolitan courts are marriage nullity proceedings , whereby since December 8, 2015, the mandatory reviews of nullity declarations by the first instance according to the Motu proprio Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus can be dispensed with. But also violations of church law by believers can be negotiated at the metropolitan court. The chief judge is the archbishop , who, however, instructs a canon lawyer, the official , to carry it out.

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Individual evidence

  1. can. 1439 CIC No. 1
  2. can. 1438 CIC No. 2