Równe czy identyczne traktowanie osób duchownych w prawie polskim?
Equal or Identical Treatment of Clergymen in the Polish Law?

Summary/Abstract: According to law, Polish churches and other religious associations, bene ting from the freedom of conscience and religion, assign to some of their members the status of clergyman. The Republic of Poland is characterized by a variety of religious associations which present di erent doctrines. In the same time, they set before their assigned clergymen precise goals and tasks to accomplish. The regulations of the Polish law related speci cally to clergymen provide for some distinctiveness which in uences the legal status of the per- sons within the mentioned group. In the present article, the author undertakes an e ort to respond to the question whether the regulations related specifically to clergymen favor the members of the larger religious associations at the expense of the smaller community ministers, or not. The question touches upon the issue of observing the principle of equal right expressed in the art. 32 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. In order to an- swer the question, the author points at the indicators of the di erentiated treatment of clergy. He concludes, that the regulations of the Polish law take into account some di erences speci c to the ministry of clergymen and respect their distinctiveness on the basis of their own laws. Such a situation doesn’t contradict the principle of equal right.

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