Roman Catholic Church in Aargau
The Roman Catholic Church in Aargau is the state church organization ( regional church ) of Roman Catholics in the canton of Aargau . It came into being as a result of the cantonal constitution passed on April 23, 1885, which recognized the Roman Catholic, Reformed and Christian Catholic regional churches as public corporations with the stipulation that they should organize themselves according to democratic principles. The Roman Catholic Church in Aargau is a member of the Roman Catholic Central Conference of Switzerland .
Emergence
The sometimes complicated ownership, beneficiary and patronage relationships were clearly regulated in Aargau with the cantonal constitution of 1885 and led to the separation of church and state. Since the recognized regional churches had to be constituted democratically, the Roman Catholics in Aargau organized themselves as a regional church alongside the episcopal church , which was composed according to canon law . In December 1885 the legislative body, the Synod, was elected. The Synod met for the first time on February 10, 1886 in Aarau , where the Synodal Council (now the Church Council) was elected as the executive and a business audit commission (GPK) was elected.
structure
At the state church law level, the parishes are the basis of the church organization. The parishes elect their representatives for the synod, which since January 1, 2007 has 150 members. The tasks of the synod are the elections of the other church organs (church council, GPK, appeals court), the issuing of regulations and guidelines on questions of finances, elections and salaries, the changes to the organizational statute, the supervision of the administration of the regional church and the parishes and approving budget, annual accounts, credits, annual reports, and mergers or divisions of parishes. The synod is headed by a president.
The executive, the church council, has been presided over by Luc Humbel since 2010 . The other members of the church council are Heinz Altorfer, Claudia Chapuis, Olivier Dinichert, Dorothee Fischer, Rudolf Hagmann, Martin Rotzler, Maria-Pia Scholl-Franchini, Rolf Steinemann.