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Catholic christians carry on their religious life within the limit of ecclesiastical norm which the catholic church defines. In the articles of Canon Law are prescribed the identity, the right and the obligation of the clerical, the religious, the laymen, and the guiding principle of the sacramental and liturgical activities. Actually all of the catholics must observe the Canonical Law that has been promulgated by John Paul II in 1983. If so, how was that in the case of the 19th century’s Korean catholic church? What functioned as a code of law over the heads of Korean neophytes in the middle of 19th century? Furthermore what could be evaluated as a first step in the history of the local ecclesiastical law of Korean catholic church? In this point of view, I would like to take notice of the ‘Facultates’ which were conferred to the first vicar apostolic of the mission of Korea, Monseigneur Barthélémy Bruguière. From the particular usage of Catholic legal discourse, the Faculties(Facultates in Latin language) mean a special competence that the authorities could employ in the extraordinary situation of the non-European mission field; i.e. under the persecution circumstance, in the lack of missionary workers, with the conflict of native culture and catholic observances. The exceptionality goals for the effective evangelization of Gospel and the reduction of practical difficulties of missionaries. Therefore the faculties have operated a kind of forceful regulation before the compilation of the local code of canonical law. We can find this aspect in the period of triad vicariates, Mgr. Bruguière, Mgr. Imbert, Mgr. Ferréol. It was not until the year of 1857 that the fourth vicar apostolic, Mgr. Berneux proclaimed the Sutchuan Synod as a official legislation in Korean catholic church. However the Sutchuan Synod was not displacement but replacement of traditional faculties, because it re-compiled them in a systematic and statutory form.
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Facultates, Canon law, mission law, vicar apostolic, Bishop Bruguière
