DIMISSORY LETTERS

By SovConn | July 12, 2014

dimissory letters (dim-<<schwa>>-sor-ee).1.Hist. Eccles. law. Documents allowing a clergy

member  to  leave  one  diocese  for  another.  2.Eccles.  law.  Documents  provided  by  one  bishop  to

enable another bishop to ordain a candidate already ordained in the former bishop’s diocese. [Blacks Law 8th]

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