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 the
presence of the president or his delegate: all who, with a deliberative or a
consultative vote, take part in an Ecumenical Council, a particular council,
the synod of Bishops, or a diocesan synod; in the presence of the council or
synod: the president himself ;
2° in
accordance with the statutes of the sacred College: those promoted to the
dignity of Cardinal;
3° in the
presence of a delegate of the Apostolic See: all who are promoted to the
episcopate, and all those who are equivalent to a diocesan Bishop;
4° in the
presence of the college of consultors: the diocesan Administrator;
5° in the
presence of the diocesan Bishop or his delegate: Vicars general, episcopal
Vicars and judicial Vicars;
6° in the
presence of the local Ordinary or his delegate: parish priests; the rector,
professors of theology and philosophy in seminaries, at the beginning of their
term of office; and those who are to be promoted to the order of diaconate;
7° in the
presence of the Chancellor or, in the absence of the Chancellor, the local
Ordinary, or the delegates of either: the rector of an ecclesiastical or
catholic university, at the beginning of the term of office - in the presence
of 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 or
morals, at the beginning of their term of office;
8° in
accordance with the constitutions: Superiors in religious institutes and
clerical societies of apostolic life.
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