Excardinate

Quick meaning: Excardinate is a verb meaning (Christianity, transitive) To free (a member of the clergy) from the jurisdiction of a particular bishop.

Meaning

(Christianity, transitive) To free (a member of the clergy) from the jurisdiction of a particular bishop.

Example Sentences

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Word Forms

• excardinates
• excardinating
• excardinated

Antonyms for excardinate

Common opposites include incardinate.

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