The sovereignty of the judiciary as the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Episcopate

Abstract

The judicial power as one of the types of church power exercised by the Orthodox episcopate is governed by both the general canonical norms of the Ecumenical Church and the normative acts of each Local Orthodox Church. At the same time, not all the norms of the canonical corps of the Orthodox Church cannot be implemented within the framework of modern legal systems due to changes in the boundaries of judicial jurisdiction in the modern era. Nevertheless, even today there are ways of sovereignty of the judicial power of the episcopate, reflected in the latest legislation of the Russian Orthodox Church. The article considers specific examples of such judicial independence of church persons in the field of marriage, property and administrative law.