excardinate

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excardinate (third-person singular simple present excardinates, present participle excardinating, simple past and past participle excardinated)

  1. (Christianity, transitive) To free (a member of the clergy) from the jurisdiction of a particular bishop.
    Antonym: incardinate
    • 2002, Michael J. Mullaney, Incardination and the Universal Dimension of the Priestly Ministry: A Comparison Between CIC 17 and CIC 83, Gregorian Biblical BookShop, →ISBN, page 187:
      When a see is vacant , whoever governs the diocese ad interim until the designation of a diocesan administrator is not competent to incardinate or excardinate a cleric ( cann . 419 , 428 ) . Can . 272 adds that the diocesan []
    • 1935, John Michael Moeder, The Proper Bishop for Ordination and Dimissorial Letters: An Historical Synopsis and Commentary:
      In order to be able to excardinate this cleric the bishop of diocese B must be his proper bishop ; for only a cleric's proper bishop can excardinate a cleric . " It cannot be denied that the bishop of diocese B is competent to []
    • 2003, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California:
      The proper canonical process was to excardinate Widera from the Milwaukee Archdiocese and to incardinate him into the Orange Diocese . Once a diocesan priest becomes incardinated in a new diocese , his relationships , obligations , and []

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