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  • 28-09-2014 9:55pm
    #1
    Star5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭


    Hi
    Can anyone advise if a priest passes away, does all their savings and assests automatically go to the church, even if they have made a will.
    Thanks
    Star


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  • #2
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Offhand no but a lot depends on circumstances.
    From my understanding of how property law works for testaments, then the normal rules on will apply to clergy as well as all others who follow the proper forms of arranging their affairs. From general reading, there have been family members who've received keepsake momentos such as books or hierlooms. Finally depending on the type of spiritual tradition the cleric had joined, it is possible that any worldly wealth was given away to charity before taking holy orders.


  • #3
    neemish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭neemish


    Star5 wrote: »
    Hi
    Can anyone advise if a priest passes away, does all their savings and assests automatically go to the church, even if they have made a will.
    Thanks
    Star


    No, depends on their Will. Every priest has to have an up to date Will. One of the executors must be another priest. But who he leaves his personal possessions to is entirely up to him.

    This does not include papers, money etc which belong to the Parish where he works. The priest executor has responsibility for looking after these and making sure they are returned to the Parish


  • #4
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    No. The priest can distribute his belongings and possessions as he sees fit. This may change slightly if he was a member of a religious community (Dominican, Salesian etc).


  • #5
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Diocesan priests have no vow of poverty and can buy, sell, own and bequeath property freely.

    Priests who are members of religious orders take a vow of poverty. This is not enforceable in civil law so they have the same legal rights as everyone else to buy, sell, own and bequeath property but in practice they own little or nothing. Typically they either do not make a will, or (more usually) they make a standard will leaving anything they may happen to own at their deaths to the religious order.


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