A Supremacy of God Formula and a Shared Nunciature in Dominica

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The constitution's preamble affirms the nation's belief in a society founded on principles that acknowledge the supremacy of God, a formula common to several former British Caribbean territories that stops short of naming any specific church while still setting the country's founding document apart from a purely secular text; the constitution guarantees freedom of religion and worship and creates no established church. Section 8 of the Criminal Code punishes abusive, blasphemous, indecent, insulting, profane or threatening language in a public place with a fine or a month's imprisonment, wording it shares in near identical form with several of its Eastern Caribbean neighbors' codes.

Dominica has never concluded a concordat with the Holy See, and its Apostolic Nunciature is held, as with the country's other diplomatic missions from Rome, by the prelate appointed to Trinidad and Tobago, part of the shared nunciature pattern the Holy See uses across the smaller states of the Eastern Caribbean rather than a treaty specific to Dominica.