Rota Sacra Romana

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 302 words | Copyright

Rota Sacra Romana. The ‘Sacred Roman Rota’, the usual tribunal for judging cases brought before the Holy See. Its jurisdiction in civil matters ended along with the temporal power of the papacy in 1870. It is the court to which appeals in nullity and other matrimonial cases are referred.

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