The System of Ecclesiastical Law Sources of Ukraine

Oleksandr Bilash; Tetyana Karabin; Pavlo Cherevko

doi:10.18290/kip2023.17

Published : 2023-12-19

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023)

The System of Ecclesiastical Law Sources of Ukraine

Oleksandr Bilash

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1248-7798

Tetyana Karabin

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6538-5269

Pavlo Cherevko

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5311-324X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/kip2023.17

Abstract

The article is devoted to the determination, systematization, and study of the system of Ecclesiastical Law sources. This is a necessary and primary task for understanding the content of ecclesiastical law and its establishment in the legal system of Ukraine.

The conducted analysis has given grounds to make up conclusions concerning the formal inequality and the subordination of some sources to others.

The Constitution provisions contains norms and principles relating to human rights and freedoms, defining Ukraine as a secular state and determine the positive duties of the state in the field of religion. The laws if Ukraine contains the large number of ecclesiastical legal norms regulating various aspects of state-confessional relations. Bylaws specify and detail the provisions of laws. Judicial law-making in the field of ecclesiastical law is manifested through the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which in Ukraine are considered the sources of law, through the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which revises laws for compliance with the constitution and fundamental values, as well as the decisions of the Supreme Court, the conclusions of which are binding not only for judicial bodies but also for all subjects of authority, which implement in their activities a legal act containing the relevant legal norm.

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sources of law, Ecclesiastical Law, Laws, international legal acts, bylaws, decisions of the courts, legal system of Ukraine

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Bilash, O., Karabin, T., & Cherevko, P. (2023). The System of Ecclesiastical Law Sources of Ukraine. Kościół I Prawo, 12(2), 9–29. https://doi.org/10.18290/kip2023.17

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