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Activities of the Major
Archiepiscopal Tribunal and the
Lower tribunals in the year 2005
There are 15 eparchies in five
metropolitan provinces within the
proper territory of the Syro Malabar
Church. All the five metropolitan
provinces have metropolitan
tribunals and they function as the
tribunals of appeal in the second
instance. All the eparchies except
Belthangandy and Thuckalay have
collegiate tribunals. The major
archiepiscopal ordinary tribunal is
the ordinary tribunal of appeal from
metropolitan tribunals. During the
calendar year 2005, the Major
Archiepiscopal Ordinary Tribunal
dealt with 72 marriage nullity
cases. Of these, the tribunal
considered 62 in the second instance
and 10 in the third instance. It
completed a judicial process
regarding the dismissal of a member
from a religious congregation of
pontifical right and it prepared a
report on the case of an
administrative recourse to the Major
Archbishop.
The activities of the Syro Malabar
tribunals within its proper
territory during the year 2005 are
briefly given in the following
tables.
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