The Vicariate of the Orient in the threshold of the union of the Augustinian Provinces in Spain

A Reconstruction of Governance and Function

Abstract

The article is about methods of restructuring of governance in an Institute of Consecrated Life. The study is set in the context of the Order of the St. Augustine. It highlights methods applicable and proposed by the Code of Canon Law for religious institutes namely; suppression, union, merger, absorption and creation of new provinces as means of restructuring of religious institutes. The study is set in the context of the Unión de las Provincias Españolas, by which Augustinian Provinces in Spain are in the process of uniting and becoming one province. The study considers largely Filipino Augustinian Religious in the Vice-Province of the Vicariate of the Orient under the jurisdiction of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines having its sede in Spain.