When is a church built?

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Who commission a church to be built? When? What are the processes?
 
=UnityofTrinity;7873054]Who commission a church to be built? When? What are the processes?
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Most often it is iniated from a local level by a priest. But their are times when the Bishop can and does exercise his right to establish a NEW parish; close an Old One; or enlarge a parish for future growth seen.

The Bishop reads the proposal and considers BOTH need and ability to fund it; and makes a determanation. yes or NO; or perhaps if you do… A:B; C.

If approved the Bishop [or his chosen experts] guide and recommend very precise guidelines on size, appearance, locations of the MAJOR elements ect. Then the Pastor and usually a Committee do the hard work.

The current guidelines is called Built of Living Stones and can be Googled and downloaded.

Get a GOOD SOLID ROMAN CATHOLIC Architect. I’d suggest you contact Duncan Storke at Notre Dame for references. He’s the most notable of the Traditional catholic Architects around today. You can likely Google his name to contact him.

May God guide your actions,

Pat
 
=UnityofTrinity;7883760]Who determines how the church gonna look like?
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I assume you mean the Physical building?

It begins with the pastor and the Building Committee he forms. They meet with an Architect. This person will guide the discussion and separate actual needs from “wants”. Set a priority list for both.

Usually the pastor [time permitting] and the B.C will travel to a variety of different catholic Churches; especially those of more recent vintages. They will take photographs and then in committee discuss what they like and don’t like. They formulate a BROAD plan and get with the Architect., who estimates the cost.

Then Artist drawing are produced for review and cost estimates applied.

Seldom is the project cost sufficient to cover both all the needs and wants; so then negations began. When a plan is settled on; the specs and plans are sent to the Bishop for review, changes if any and authorization to proceed. By this point Artist rendering are part of the process for both the interior and exterior. Of course the parish in total will vote on the plans before submitted to the Bishops Office.

God Bless,
Pat
 
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