Abstract
Law made by religious communities applies initially only in the religious community’s legal system. It is valid in the secular legal system only if the validity can be traced back on a state-made legal rule. This applies to ecclesiastical legal reservations of supervisory approval, too. These reservations rule which types of legal transactions of ecclesiastical corporate bodies require an approval by the ecclesiastical supervisory bodies and authorities. Ecclesiastical reservations of supervisory approval claiming validity in the secular legal system must be duly promulgated. The promulgation has to fulfil the requirements of the rule of law. A promulgation only in the paper version of the ecclesiastical official gazette is insufficient. Necessary but also sufficient is a promulgation in an – in the broadest sense – secular (but not necessarily state-owned) publication body, as for example in the online version of the ecclesiastical official gazette.
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