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Offices

Canon 936

1. An ecclesiastical office is any function constituted in a

stable manner by the Lord himself or by competent authority to be

exercised for a spiritual purpose. 2. The rights and the obligations proper to individual offices are defined either in the

law by which the office is constituted or in the decree of a competent authority. 3. That authority which is competent to establish an office, can also modify and suppress an office and

make canonical provision for them unless the law expressly establishes otherwise or it is clear from the nature of the case.