Learning Outcomes
As a result of the teaching of the course of ecclesiastical law, students acquire legal specialization in one of the most broad specific legal disciplines, with frequent legal practice implementation.
Specifically,the students learn and deepen on three main pillars:
(a) the relations between church and state in Greece and Europe, with specific emphasis on their legal applications (jurisdiction of the State Council - ecclesiastical legal entities of public law and private law - clergy salaries - tax religions, etc.)
(b) the constitutional and other legal protection of the right to religious freedom (freedom of religious conscience - freedom of worship - restrictions on the right - proselytism - religious freedom cases before the European Court of Human Rights - European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms), and
(c) the legal status of the organization, administration and operation of the institutional church / religious entities (collective and single-person governing bodies, regulatory and legislative powers delegated to the local government, metropolitan-churches-monasteries, church property, ecclesiastical criminal law).
Course Content (Syllabus)
The scientific object of Ecclesiastical Law: religious freedom – religious human rights (individual - collective dimension) – constitutional and legal relations between State and Church. Sources of Ecclesiastical Law of the Orthodox Church and of minority faiths. Interpretative methods of Ecclesiastical Law. Restrictions on religious human rights. Historical and modern systems of State and Church relations in Europe. Temporal relationships of State and Religions in Greece. The five orthodox ecclesiastical territories in Greece (Autocephalous Church of Greece, Dioceses of Northern Greece, Church of Crete, Patriarchal Dioceses of the Dodecanese, Mount Athos). Acquisition and loss of membership of the Orthodox Church. Discrimination of members of the Orthodox Church (clergy, laity, monks). Particular legal treatment of clerics and monks.
Religious communities and minorities. The law of religious minorities with legal personality under private law (Old Calendarists - Catholic Church - Armenian Church - Protestant Churches - Jehovah's Witnesses - Muslims - Buddhists – Dodekatheists - Scientology).
Keywords
Relations between Church and State, Religious Freedom, Organization and Administration Church and Religious Corporate, Church Property, Taxation I
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
"1) ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ Γ .ΠΑΠΑΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ, ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΟ ΔΙΚΑΙΟ, 1/2013
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 33074652
ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΜΠΑΡΜΠΟΥΝΑΚΗΣ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟΣ
2) ΤΡΩΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΠΥΡΙΔΩΝ, ΠΟΥΛΗΣ Γ., Εκκλησιαστικό Δίκαιο, 2/2003
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 27840
ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣ Ν. ΣΑΚΚΟΥΛΑΣ
3) Κονιδάρης Ιωάννης, Εγχειρίδιο εκκλησιαστικού δικαίου, 2/2011
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 184831
ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΣΑΚΚΟΥΛΑ ΑΕ"
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.
▪ Σ. Τρωιάνος / Κ. Παπαγεωργίου, Θρησκευτική Νομοθεσία. Ειδική Νομοθεσία - Βιβλιογραφία - Νομολογία, Αθήνα 2009.