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Updated 21 Oct 2006
Rotal cases are now published approximately five years after
being issued. See Tribunal Apostolicum Sacrae Romanae Rotae,
Decisiones seu Sententiae
The Roman Rota
currently operates in accord with the Code of Canon Law in
general (esp. 1983 CIC 1442-1444) and with special norms in
particular. For English, see Canon Law Digest 10:
219-243.
Important
studies of Rotal activities include:
Carolus
Holböck, Tractatus de
Jurisprudentia Sacrae Romanae Rotae, 1909-1946 (Verlag
Styria, 1957);
Augustine
Mendonça, Rotal Anthology:
an annotated Index of Rotal Decisions from 1971-1988 (CLSA, 1992);
and
John Noonan, Jr., Power
to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the courts of the Roman
Curia (Belknap/Harvard,1972).
For a brief history of the famous
Spanish Rota at Madrid and the norms by which it was
reconstituted in 1947, see Anon, "The Establishment of the
Spanish Rota" The Jurist 7 (1947) 427-436; for brief
comments on the Spanish and "Polish Rota", see E. Egan, “Appeal
in marriage nullity cases: two centuries of experiment and
reform”, Canon Law Society of America Proceedings 43
(1981) 132-144.
Msgr.
Cormac Burke's personal webpage
1657 Title Page for
Otthobono's Rotal Cases
"If one takes a given
volume of the Rota decisions and reads consecutively all of the
decisions on a given caput, it does not take long to
discover that the Rota frequently reverses itself. These
reversals are generally due to different interpretations of the
facts. At times, however, the reversals are due to different
interpretations of the law. The conclusion is that the law, as
expounded by the Rota in a given decision, especially on an
abstruse point, is not necessarily above all controversy."
J. Chatham, "Sources and their use in the preparation of briefs
and sentences" The Jurist 20 (1960) 84-98, at 89.
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Canon Law
Canonistics
Rota Background
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1.
Rotal Auditors under the 1983 Code
Source: Cittá del Vaticano,
Annuario Pontificio
"Tribunale della Rota Romamano"
(various years)
Usually there are 20 Auditors (or judges) serving on the Roman Rota
Here, the name of the Dean is placed in bold.
Italian Auditors listed
in Red. Native English
speakers,
USA:
Ireland:
 Scotland:
Age at time of appointment in
parentheses.
Reading Notes on papal
addresses to the Rota, 1939-2006
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Pope John Paul II addresses
the
Rota in 2002
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(AP)
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1983 |
1984 |
1985 |
1986 |
1987 |
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De Jorio (48) |
De Jorio |
De Jorio |
Fiore
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Fiore |
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Fiore (42) |
Fiore |
Fiore |
Pinto |
Pinto |
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Ferraro (54) |
Ferraro |
Ferraro |
Masala |
Masala |
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Parisella (54) |
Parisella |
Pinto |
Di Felice |
Pompedda |
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Pinto (55) |
Pinto |
Masala |
Pompedda |
Serrano |
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Masala (53) |
Masala |
Di Felice |
Serrano |
Bruno |
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Di Felice (56) |
Di Felice |
Pompedda |
Augustino |
Davino |
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Pompedda (40) |
Pompedda |
Serrano |
Bruno |
Huot |
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Serrano (38) |
Serrano |
Augustino |
Davino |
Stankiewicz |
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Augustino (47) |
Augustino |
Bruno |
Huot |
Giannecchini |
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Bruno (49) |
Bruno |
Davino |
Stankiewicz |
Colagiovanni |
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Davino (42) |
Davino |
Huot |
Giannecchini |
Ragni |
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Huot (58) |
Huot |
Egan
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Colagiovanni |
DE LaNversin |
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Egan (40)
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Egan
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Stankiewicz |
Ragni |
Jarawan |
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Stankiewicz (42) |
Stankiewicz |
Giannecchini |
DE LaNversin |
Funghini |
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Giannecchini (53) |
Giannecchini |
Colagiovanni |
Jarawan |
Palestro |
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Colagiovanni (59) |
Colagiovanni |
Ragni |
FUNGHINI |
Van Bilsen |
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Ragni (56) |
Ragni |
DE LaNversin |
PALESTRO (56) |
Corso |
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DE LaNversin (56) |
DE LaNversin |
Jarawan |
Van Bilsen (72) |
Burke (59)
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Jarawan (59) |
Jarawan |
FUNGHINI (55) |
Corso (57) |
Doran (49)
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Boccafola (47)
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Neuhaus (47) |
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Faltin (59) |
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1988 |
1989 |
1990 |
1991 |
1992 |
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Fiore |
Fiore |
Fiore |
Fiore |
Fiore |
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Masala |
Masala |
Pompedda |
Pompedda |
Pompedda |
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Pompedda |
Pompedda |
Serrano |
Serrano |
Serrano |
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Serrano |
Serrano |
Bruno |
Bruno |
Bruno |
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Bruno |
Bruno |
Davino |
Davino |
Davino |
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Davino |
Davino |
Stankiewicz |
Stankiewicz |
Stankiewicz |
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Stankiewicz |
Stankiewicz |
Giannecchini |
Giannecchini |
Giannecchini |
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Giannecchini |
Giannecchini |
Colagiovanni |
Colagiovanni |
Colagiovanni |
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Colagiovanni |
Colagiovanni |
Ragni |
Ragni |
Ragni |
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Ragni |
Ragni |
DE LaNversin |
DE LaNversin |
DE LaNversin |
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DE LaNversin |
DE LaNversin |
Jarawan |
Jarawan |
Jarawan |
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Jarawan |
Jarawan |
Funghini |
Funghini |
Funghini |
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Funghini |
Funghini |
Palestro |
Palestro |
Palestro |
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Palestro |
Palestro |
Corso |
Burke |
Burke |
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Corso |
Corso |
Burke
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Doran
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Doran
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Burke |
Burke
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Doran
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Boccafola
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Boccafola
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Doran
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Doran
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Boccafola
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Neuhaus |
Faltin |
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Boccafola
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Boccafola
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Neuhaus |
Faltin |
Civili |
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Neuhaus |
Neuhaus |
Faltin |
Civili |
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Faltin |
Faltin |
Civili |
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CIVILI (62) |
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1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
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Fiore |
Pompedda |
Pompedda |
Pompedda |
Pompedda |
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Pompedda |
Serrano |
Serrano |
Serrano |
Serrano |
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Serrano |
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