Incardination together with excardination

Incardination is the formal term in the Catholic Church for a clergyman being under a bishop or other ecclesiastical superior. it is for also sometimes used to refer to laity who may transfer to another component of the church. Examples put transfers from the Western Latin Church to an Eastern Catholic Church or from a territorial diocese to one of the three personal ordinariates for former Anglicans.

Terminology

Its antonym, excardination, denotes that a section of the clergy has been freed from one jurisdiction and is transferred to another.

Both terms are Latin verbs incardinare to hang on a hinge or prepare and excardinare to unhinge or species free.