Jurisprudence of the Apostolic Signatura in contentious-administrative cases

A list of the decisions of the Apostolic Signatura which have been published in several periodicals, has been created by Mons. G. Paolo Montini. The most recent version of this list is accessible on his web site. The following table is mainly based, with his permission, on that list. Some information from other sources has been added. The table on this page contains 355 decisions, of which 100 are definitive sentences.

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Abbreviations

AAS	Acta Apostolicae Sedis
AfkK	Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht
Apoll	Apollinaris
CLSN	Canon Law Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Newsletter
Comm	Communicationes
Comm.	Commentarium/Commentaria
CpR	Commentarium pro religiosis et missionariis
Digest	The Canon Law Digest VII-XIV, Milwaukee/ Washington 1975-2012
EIC	Ephemerides Iuris Canonici
IC	Ius canonicum
IDE	Il diritto ecclesiastico
IE	Ius Ecclesiae
J	The Jurist
LE	X. Ochoa, ed., Leges Ecclesiae post Codicem Iuris Canonici editae I-X, Roma 1966-2010
ME	Monitor ecclesiasticus
Per	Periodica de re [morali] canonica [liturgica]
Proceed	Proceedings of CLSA
QDE	Quaderni di diritto ecclesiale
REDC	Revista española de derecho canónico
REU	Regimini Ecclesiae universae, 15 augusti 1967
RR	Roman Replies
SC	Studia canonica
SCL	Studies in Church Law

Languages

angl.	anglica
gall.	gallica
germ.	germanica
hisp.	hispanica
it.	italica
lus.	lusitana

Literature

F.R. Aznar Gil, Los bienes artísticos	F.R. Aznar Gil – R. Sánchez Román, Los bienes artísticos de las parroquias de la Franja: el proceso canónico (1995-2008), Zaragoza 2009.
W.L. Daniel, «Brief Note on Abatement»	W.L. Daniel, «Brief Note on Abatement in limine in a Contentious-Administrative Trial», J 75 (2015) 248-252.
W.L. Daniel, Ministerium Iustitiae	W.L. Daniel, Ministerium Iustitiae. Jurisprudence of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. Official Latin with English Translation, Translated by William L. Daniel, Montréal 2011.
W.L. Daniel, Ministerium Iustitiae II	W.L. Daniel, Ministerium Iustitiae vol. II. The Lex propria and More Recent Contentious-Administrative Jurisprudence of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Translated and compiled by William L. Daniel, Montréal 2021.
K. Martens, «Brief Note Regarding»	K. Martens, «Brief Note Regarding the Reconfiguration of Parishes and the Relegation of Churches to Profane Use», J 73 (2013) 626-643.
G. Parise, La giurisprudenza	G. Parise, La giurisprudenza del Supremo Tribunale della Segnatura Apostolica in materia di soppressione, unione e modifica di parrocchie e di riduzione ad uso profano non indecoroso di edifici sacri, Romae 2015. In Appendice altera (pp. 424-450) plura decisionum excerpta leguntur, quae ab Auctoribus passim reportantur.
P.V. Pinto, Diritto amministrativo canonico	P.V. Pinto, Diritto amministrativo canonico. La Chiesa: mistero e istituzione, Bologna 2006, 392-517.
P.V. Pinto, La giustizia amministrativa	P.V. Pinto, La giustizia amministrativa della Chiesa, Milano 1977, 253-351.

Abbreviations in the Prot. N.

CA	Contentiosus Administrativus
CC	Conflictus Competentiae
CG	Contentiosus Iudicialis («Contenzioso Giudiziario»)
CP	Commissiones Pontificiae
EC	Effectus Civiles
ES	Examen Sententiarum
SAT	Status et Activitas Tribunalium
VAR	Variae
VT	Vigilantia Tribunalium

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	Date	Prot. N.	Type of decision	Petitioner	Respondent	Diocese	Summary and legal sources		Publication	Translations	Comments	Content	Notes
	Date	Prot. N.	coram	Petitioner	Respondent	Object	Summary and legal sources		Publication	Translations	Comments	Content	Notes