Code of Canon Law: text (original) (raw)

TITLE V: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH (Can. 833)

Can.833 The following are personally bound to make a profession of faith, according to the formula approved by the Apostolic See:

1° in thepresence of the president or his delegate: all who, with a deliberative or aconsultative vote, take part in an Ecumenical Council, a particular council, the synod of Bishops, or a diocesan synod; in the presence of the council orsynod: the president himself ;

2° inaccordance with the statutes of the sacred College: those promoted to thedignity of Cardinal;

3° in thepresence of a delegate of the Apostolic See: all who are promoted to theepiscopate, and all those who are equivalent to a diocesan Bishop;

4° in thepresence of the college of consultors: the diocesan Administrator;

5° in thepresence of the diocesan Bishop or his delegate: Vicars general, episcopal Vicars and judicial Vicars;

6° in thepresence of the local Ordinary or his delegate: parish priests; the rector,professors of theology and philosophy in seminaries, at the beginning of theirterm of office; and those who are to be promoted to the order of diaconate;

7° in thepresence of the Chancellor or, in the absence of the Chancellor, the local Ordinary, or the delegates of either: the rector of an ecclesiastical orcatholic university, at the beginning of the term of office - in the presenceof the rector if he is a priest, or of the local Ordinary or the delegates of either: those who in any universities teach subjects which deal with faith ormorals, at the beginning of their term of office;

8° inaccordance with the constitutions: Superiors in religious institutes andclerical societies of apostolic life.