Code of Procedure before the Courts of the Eastern Catholic Church

Type

Law

Date of the text

06/01/1950

Official Gazette

published in 1950

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

576

What it provides

This law regulates procedure in the Eastern Catholic Church's ecclesiastical courts, defining civil and criminal ecclesiastical trials, the Church's exclusive competence over spiritual matters and immune persons, rules for overlapping jurisdiction with civil courts, and the rules on original and delegated ecclesiastica

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1950. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.