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An appellate court of the Church of England. In cases involving church doctrine, ceremony or ritual Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved hears the case. The Court is composed of three diocesan bishops and two appellate judges; it has jurisdiction over both of the provinces of Canterbury and York. The Court, however, meets very rarely. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...
Roman Catholic courts are governed by the Code of Canon Law in the case of the Western Church (Latin or Roman Rite), and the Code of Canons of the Oriental Churches in the case of the Eastern Church (Byzantine, Ukrainian, Maronite, Melkite, etc., Rites).
In the Church of England, the EcclesiasticalCourts are a system of courts, held by authority of the Crown, whose holder is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
Specialist courts in the Province of Canterbury are the Court of Faculties, the Court of Peculiars and the Court of the Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury.
He must be a solicitor learned in ecclesiastical law and the law of the land, and be a communicant.
Proctor was the term used for solicitors practising in the ecclesiasticalcourts, and the counsel were the advocates of the Society of Doctors' Commons.
The Consistory Court can only become involved in the case of a priest or deacon who is accused of an offence not involving matters of doctrine, ritual or ceremonial after the bishop has given the complainant and the accused an opportunity of seeing him.
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