DECREE OF APPROVAL OF THE GENERAL CONSTITUTIONS

CONGREGATION
FOR THE INSTITUTES OF CONSECRATED LIFE
AND SOCIETIES OF APOSTOLIC LIFE
Prot. n. T. 144-1/2000

DECREE

The Conference of General Ministers of the Franciscan First Order and Third Order Regular has presented to the Apostolic See for approval, the text of the Constitutions of the Secular Franciscan Order, previously approved by the General Chapter of the same Secular Franciscan Order, celebrated in the month of October 1999.

After careful examination of the above mentioned text of the Constitutions, the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, by this present Decree approves and confirms the text, according to the copy written in Italian, conserved in its Archives, all requirements of law being observed.

Anything to the contrary not withstanding.

From the Vatican, December 8, 2000,
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Eduardo Card. Martínez Somalo
Prefect

+ Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, C.P.
Secretary

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