ECCLESIASTICAL LAW

Course Information
TitleΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΟ ΔΙΚΑΙΟ / ECCLESIASTICAL LAW
CodeΕΛΕ53
FacultyLaw
SchoolLaw
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID100001695

Programme of Study: PPS Tmīma Nomikīs (2024-sīmera)

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
ENIAIA KATEUTHYNSĪElective CoursesWinter-5

Class Information
Academic Year2018 – 2019
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours2
Class ID
600126647
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Background
  • General Knowledge
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
As a result of the successful participation in the course of Ecclesiastical Law, students: ▪ at a theoretical level, gain a broad knowledge of constitutional and generally multilevel fair relationship between the state and churches / religions in Greece and Europe, learning to critically approach the various aspects of these relations, ▪ at a practical level, and through the analysis of the case of the Greek and European courts (Council of State - Supreme Court - European Court of Human Rights) acquire legal specialization in an industry with frequent litigation application, learning to argue either in court either on the public / private dialogue constitutionally viable for solving these problems. Specifically, learn and deepen in the following three main cognitive pillars of Church Law: (a) Relationship state and churches / religions in Greece and Europe, focusing on the specific legal applications (such as: cancellation competence Council of State, the Supreme Court and other courts - organization, management, operation and decision making in ecclesiastical legal entities of public and private law - payroll clergy - financial and tax treatment of religions) (b) Constitutional and other legal protection of the right to religious freedom (freedom of religious conscience - freedom of worship - restrictions on the right - conversion - religious freedom cases before the European Court of Human Rights - European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental freedoms) (c) Legal status of organization, administration and institutional functioning of church / religious entities (collectively and single-person governing bodies, regulatory competence and legislative authorization for the government, metropolitan-temples-monasteries, church property, ecclesiastical criminal law). Special church dikaiotaxies: Mount Athos, Church of Crete, Orthodox patriarchates
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Constitutional and Legal Status of Religious Affairs in Greece and the European Union. Church and State Relations in Greece and the European Union. Content, protection and limitations of the right to religious freedom. Sources of Ecclesiastical Law. Methods of interpreting the provisions of canon law. Church members, legal personnel and property status of these. Internal organization and administration of religions. Ecclesiastical criminal law. Church property, financial status of religions. Organizational subdivisions of the Church (Metropolises, parishes, monasteries). Church jurisdictios in Greek territory. Legal status of the monastic state of Mount Athos. Churches of Crete and the Dodecanese. Patriarchates: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Patriarchate of four old and younger.
Keywords
Relations between Church and State, Religious Freedom, Organization and Administration of Church and Religious Legal Entities, church property, Religious Taxation.
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures52
Seminars
Project
Written assigments
Total52
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Formative, Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
  • Written Exam with Problem Solving (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
"1) ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ Γ .ΠΑΠΑΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ, ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΟ ΔΙΚΑΙΟ, 1/2013, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΜΠΑΡΜΠΟΥΝΑΚΗΣ Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 33074652 2) ΤΡΩΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΠΥΡΙΔΩΝ, ΠΟΥΛΗΣ Γ., Εκκλησιαστικό Δίκαιο, 2/2003, ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣ Ν. ΣΑΚΚΟΥΛΑΣ Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 27840 3) Κονιδάρης Ιωάννης, Εγχειρίδιο εκκλησιαστικού δικαίου, 2/2011, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΣΑΚΚΟΥΛΑ ΑΕ Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 184831"
Additional bibliography for study
▪ Ευ. Βενιζέλος, Οι σχέσεις Κράτους και Εκκλησίας, Θεσσαλονίκη 2000 ▪ Γ. Κτιστάκις, Θρησκευτική ελευθερία και Ευρωπαϊκή Σύμβαση Δικαιωμάτων του Ανθρώπου, Αθήνα-Κομοτηνή 2004 ▪ Κ. Κυριαζόπουλος, Περιορισμοί στην ελευθερία διδασκαλίας των μειονοτικών θρησκευμάτων, Θεσσαλονίκη 1999 ▪ Κ. Παπαγεωργίου, Θεωρία και Πράξη του Εκκλησιαστικού Δικαίου Ι, Θεσσαλονίκη 2014
Last Update
07-01-2016