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Legal Problems of Anglicanism in Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Hanns Engelhardt
Hanns Engelhardt
Affiliation:
Sometime Lecturer in Ecclesiastical Law at the Universities of Bochum and Gieβen
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As in other countries on the Continent, there have been a considerable number of Anglican chaplaincies and churches in Germany. They were established—loosely speaking, not in the sense of churches as ‘by law established’—either by merchants or by people of means who toured the Continent, and settled occasionally in fashionable spas or other similar places. These chaplaincies may be grouped—from a legal point of view—according to their status under German law which may be different with regard to the German system of law governing the relationships between the state and the churches.

Type
Research Article
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 25 , July 1999 , pp. 272 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1999

References

1 Schniewind, Paul, in his Anglicans in Germany (1988)Google Scholar, gives a comprehensive list of these chaplaincies up to World War II.

2 Preamble to the Constitution.

3 Hamburgisches Geselz- und verordmmgsblatt (1974) p 151.Google Scholar

4 Amtlicher Anzeiger (1916) p. 1092.Google Scholar

5 For particulars see Weber, Hermann. ‘Die Verleihung der Rechte einer Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts an Religionsgesellschaften’ [1989] 34 Zeilschrift für erangelisches Kirchenrecht 337.Google Scholar

6 There is no need to consider here the Lusitanian and Spanish Reformed Episcopal Churches, both of them provinces of the Anglican Communion, because they extend to the Iberian peninsula only, and have no significance in Germany.

7 Diocese in Europe Constitution 1995. s 22(a).

8 Letter dated 14 September 1988.

9 Now the Council of Anglican Episcopal Churches in Germany: infra 3.

10 Diocese in Europe Constitution 1995. para 1.

11 Moore's Introduction to Englisli Canon Law (3rd ed. 1992. by Briden, Timothy and Hanson, Brian), p 16.Google Scholar

12 CIC c. 369. Cf. Doe, . The Legal Framework of the Church of England (1996). p 95.Google Scholar

13 Diocese in Europe Constitution 1995. para 3(b).

14 90 BGHZ 331.

15 KG [1975] MDR 140: BayObLG [1987] BayObLGZ 161.at 170.

16 LG Hildesheim [1965] NJW 2400.

17 KG [1975] MDR 140.

18 LG Aachen [1976] DVBI 914.

19 KG [1975] MDR 140.

20 Cf Hütwohl, Heinrich. Das Katholische Bistum der Alt-Kutholiken in Deutschland (1964).Google Scholar