Canon 440

1. The aggregation of a non-confederated monastery sui iuris

to, or the withdrawal from a confederation is reserved to the

same authority spoken of in can. 439. 2. A confederation,

however, within the territorial boundaries of a patriarchal

Church can be suppressed only by the patriarch, with the consent

of the synod of bishops of the patriarchal Church, after consultation with the eparchial bishops who have an interest, and of

the president of the confederation, without prejudice to suspensive recourse to the Roman Pontiff; the suppression of other

confederations is reserved to the Apostolic See, 3. It is

reserved to the authority which suppressed the confederation to

dispose of the property that belongs to the suppressed confederation, without prejudice to the will of the donors; in such a

case the patriarch needs the consent of the permanent synod.