![]() ![]() If a church cannot be used in any way for divine worship and there is no possibility of repairing it, the diocesan bishop can relegate it to profane but not sordid use. Ordinary care for preservation and fitting means of security are to be used to protect sacred and precious goods.Ĭan. 1221 Entry to a church is to be free and gratuitous during the time of sacred celebrations.Ĭan. All those responsible are to take care that in churches such cleanliness and beauty are preserved as befit a house of God and that whatever is inappropriate to the holiness of the place is excluded. Churches, especially cathedrals and parish churches, are to be dedicated by the solemn rite.Ĭan. 1218 Each church is to have its own title which cannot be changed after the church has been dedicated.Ĭan. 1219 In a church that has legitimately been dedicated or blessed, all acts of divine worship can be performed, without prejudice to parochial rights.Ĭan. 1220 §1. After construction has been completed properly, a new church is to be dedicated or at least blessed as soon as possible the laws of the sacred liturgy are to be observed. Although religious institutes have received from the diocesan bishop consent to establish a new house in the diocese or the city, they must also obtain his permission before building a church in a certain and determined place.Ĭan. 1216 In the building and repair of churches, the principles and norms of the liturgy and of sacred art are to be observed, after the advice of experts has been taken into account.Ĭan. 1217 §1. The diocesan bishop is not to give consent unless, after having heard the presbyteral council and the rectors of the neighboring churches, he judges that the new church can serve the good of souls and that the means necessary for building the church and for divine worship will not be lacking. ![]() No church is to be built without the express written consent of the diocesan bishop. 1213 The ecclesiastical authority freely exercises its powers and functions in sacred places.Ĭan. 1214 By the term church is understood a sacred building designated for divine worship to which the faithful have the right of entry for the exercise, especially the public exercise, of divine worship.Ĭan. 1215 §1. In an individual case, however, the ordinary can permit other uses which are not contrary to the holiness of the place.Ĭan. 1211 Sacred places are violated by gravely injurious actions done in them with scandal to the faithful, actions which, in the judgment of the local ordinary, are so grave and contrary to the holiness of the place that it is not permitted to carry on worship in them until the damage is repaired by a penitential rite according to the norm of the liturgical books.Ĭan. 1212 Sacred places lose their dedication or blessing if they have been destroyed in large part, or have been turned over permanently to profane use by decree of the competent ordinary or in fact.Ĭan. Either of them, moreover, can delegate another priest for this purpose.Ĭan. 1208 When the dedication or blessing of a church or the blessing of a cemetery has been completed, a document is to be drawn up, one copy of which is to be kept in the diocesan curia and another in the archive of the church.Ĭan. 1209 The dedication or blessing of any place is sufficiently proven by one witness who is above suspicion, provided that no harm is done to anyone.Ĭan. 1210 Only those things which serve the exercise or promotion of worship, piety, or religion are permitted in a sacred place anything not consonant with the holiness of the place is forbidden. ORATORIES AND PRIVATE CHAPELSĬan. 1205 Sacred places are those which are designated for divine worship or for the burial of the faithful by a dedication or a blessing which the liturgical books prescribe for this purpose.Ĭan. 1206 The dedication of any place belongs to the diocesan bishop and to those equivalent to him by law they can entrust the function of carrying out a dedication in their territory to any bishop or, in exceptional cases, to a presbyter.Ĭan. 1207 Sacred places are blessed by the ordinary the blessing of churches, however, is reserved to the diocesan bishop.
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