Baptism

Regulations concerning Adoptions and Baptismal Registers and Certificates

Child Protection

Promulgating the Revised Policy for the Protection of Children 2018
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Confirmation

Revised norms for Confirmation (2022)

Deaneries

Effecting the dissolution of the Gannon Deanery
Effecting the merger of the Clearfield Deanery into the DuBois Deanery
Effecting the merger of the Meadville and Sharon Deaneries and erecting the Greenville Deanery

Edicts

Announcing the Libellus and Opening of the Cause for Gertrude A. Barber

Financial Matters

Procedures for the Buying or Selling of Parish Real Estate
Sacramental Assistance Remuneration Policy (2016)

Funerals

Eulogies
Funeral Rites for Clergy Who Ceased Ministry

Mass

Altering the Time for Mass on the Vigil of Sunday
Anticipated and Vigil Masses
Establishing Required Procedures for the Modification of Mass Schedules
Regulating Mass celebrated ad orientem
Revised Communion Rite (2021)

Parishes

List of Merged or Closed Parishes and Churches
On the Celebration of Sunday, Holy Day, and Weekday Masses
On the Structuring of Parish Finance Councils
On the Structuring of Parish Pastoral Councils
Regulations for the Administration of Parish Temporal Affairs in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie (2007)

Political Involvement

Norms for Participation of Catholic Institutions in the Political Sphere

Schools

On the Requirement to Comply with Diocesan School Policies

Vicars

On the Selection and Duties of the Vicar Forane (Dean)

Weddings

Establishing the Time for Weddings on the Vigil of Sunday
Location of Wedding and Baptismal Celebrations
Weddings on Holy Days of Obligation