Incardination and excardination

As Incardination refers to the inclusion of a Roman Catholic cleric to his superior authority within the church and the resulting mutual relationship. The termination of his is called excardination.

Inkardinationsfähige instances are after the CIC diocese or other particular Churches, personal prelatures, religious institutes and societies of apostolic life, with special permission, Secular Institutes.

The Incardination committed one hand the cleric incardinated for service in the respective organization of the Church, on the other hand inkardinierende organization to employ him in their service and existentially secure.

A consecration can only be done if such an instance is ready to consecration to the ends incardinate. A Inkardinationsverhältnis can be transferred from one to another instance when about a diocesan priest from a diocese moves to another, a diocesan priest enters a religious order or a religious priest leaves his religious and diocesan priests is. The Incardination can also laicization voluntarily or as a canonical penalty, be terminated.