• The Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (Latin: Supremum Tribunal Signaturae Apostolicae) is the highest judicial authority in the Catholic Church...
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  • the Apostolic See, normally are not handled by the Signatura. Those go to the Roman Rota, which is the ordinary appellate tribunal of the Apostolic See...
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    Raymond Leo Burke (category Prefects of the Apostolic Signatura)
    2008 to 2014, he was the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. A canon lawyer, Burke is perceived as a voice of traditionalism...
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  • along with the other courts of the Holy See: the Apostolic Penitentiary and the Apostolic Signatura. In March 2020, Pope Francis issued a new Vatican...
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    fiscal administration of the Patrimony of Saint Peter. As regulated in the apostolic constitution Pastor bonus of 1988, the Camerlengo is always a cardinal...
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    explains "...is not founded on God's justice, but on His goodness". By the apostolic constitution Indulgentiarum doctrina of 1 January 1967, Pope Paul VI,...
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    numerous being those that concern alleged nullity of marriage. The Apostolic Signatura is the supreme appellate and administrative court concerning decisions...
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    the priesthood. He was also appointed in 1758 Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura and held that position until the following year. He also became the...
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    was appointed a Referendary Prelate of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. On 16 December 1937, after his mentor Giuseppe Pizzardo was named...
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    Pope Innocent IX (category Apostolic nuncios to the Republic of Venice)
    of his affairs at Parma. He was also made the Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura in 1559 and held that post for a year. In 1560, Facchinetti was named...
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