ARTICLE 2:
PRESENTATION
Can.
158 §1 Presentation to an ecclesiastical office by a person having the right of
presentation must be made to the authority who is competent to make an
appointment to the office in question; unless it is otherwise lawfully
provided, presentation is to be made within three months of receiving
notification of the vacancy of the office.
§2 If the
right of presentation belongs to a college or group of persons, the person to
be presented is to be designated according to the provisions of cann. 165 -
179.
Can.
159 No one is to be presented who is unwilling. Accordingly, one who is
proposed for presentation must be consulted, and may be presented if within
eight canonical days a refusal is not entered.
Can.
160 §1 One who has the right of presentation may present one or more persons,
either simultaneously or successively.
§2 No
persons may present themselves. However a college or a group of persons may
present one of its members.
Can.
161 §1 Unless the law prescribes otherwise, one who has presented a person who
is judged unsuitable, may within a month present another candidate, but once
only.
§2 If
before the appointment is made the person presented has withdrawn or has died,
the one with the right of presentation may exercise this right again, within a
month of receiving notice of the withdrawal or of the death.
Can.
162 A person who has not presented anyone within the canonical time prescribed
by can. 158 §1 and can. 161, or who has twice presented a candidate judged to
be unsuitable, loses the right of presentation for that case. The authority who
is competent to appoint may then freely provide for the vacant office, but with
the consent of the proper Ordinary of the person appointed.
Can.
163 The authority to whom, in accordance with the law, it belongs to appoint
one who is presented, is to appoint the person lawfully presented whom he has
judged suitable, and who has accepted. If a number lawfully presented are
judged suitable, he is to appoint one of them.
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