The use of participles is one of the syntactic models that Croatian Church Slavonic language has inherited from the oldest Slavic literary language. The comparative investigation of the syntactic functions of participles in the Gospel texts in eight selected Croatian Glagolitic missals from the 14th to the 16th century has shown a high level of correspondence with their status attested in the Old Church Slavonic language. The syntax of participles is analysed according to their function in six chapters: substantivized participle, determinative participle (attributive participle, participle as situational determinator), dative absolute, predicative participle and participle as secondary predicate. In each chapter other characteristics related to their syntactic status are described, both morphosyntactic (e. g. the use of short and long forms) and syntactic (e. g. the use of some other syntactic means). Numerous recorded variations in the use of participle and its competitive syntactic mean (e. g. relative or temporal clause), attested already in the canonical texts, appear equally in all missals, regardless of the time of their creation. Although the correlation of the syntax of participles with the language of their template has been expectedly confirmed, the variations do not always depend on the missals belonging to the northern or southern group. Nevertheless, it can be determined that the use of participles and participle constructions was a part of the Croatian Church Slavonic norm, and that they were kept purposely and consciously in liturgical texts. In spite of their lower proportion in the Misal hruacki, the syntax of participles corresponds to that in other seven missals, which shows that Kožičić knew actively the Croatian Church Slavonic language, and that the deviations from the Croatian Glagolitic tradition are the result of an intensive redacting according to the Latin template. The absence of any relevant difference between the investigated missals indicates the existence of a solid Croatian Church Slavonic norm and testifies that the permanence of the Croatian Church Slavonic prestige as the highest type of literary language has not essentially changed during centuries. As an emblematic (Old) Church Slavonic characteristic, exactly participles are one of the elements which was longest and best retained, and which the Croatian Glagolitic priests have regarded as a typical feature of the most prestigious articulation of the literary language.