I, the Most Reverend Mitchell T. Rozanski, Metropolitan Archbishop of Saint Louis, hereby
promulgate the following particular law for the Archdiocese of Saint Louis:
In a circumstance in which a parish has spent 5% or more of its unrestricted parish
savings and/or in a circumstance in which a parish is spending 50% or more of its
annual Sunday Offering for the sole purpose of operating its parochial school, the
expressed permission of the Archbishop, in consultation with the Episcopal Vicar,
is required before contracts may be offered to educators for the following academic
year.
This Decree is effective January 15, 2025 (cf, canon 8 ยง2). Its official notification is its publication
in the Saint Louis Review.
Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.
Given in the offices of the Curia of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, this fifteenth day of December,
in the Year of Our Lord, 2024.
Most Reverend Mitchell T. Rozanski
Archbishop of Saint Louis
