Art.. 2. Presentation

Can.158 §1. Presentation for an ecclesiastical office by a person who has the right of presentation

must be made to the authority to whom it belongs to install in that office. Moreover, this must be

done within three months from notice of the vacancy of the office unless other provision has been

made legitimately.

§2. If some college or group of persons has the right of presentation, the person to be

presented is to be designated according to the prescripts of cann. 165-179.

Can.159 No one is to be presented unwillingly; therefore, a person who is proposed for

presentation and questioned about his or her intention can be presented unless the person

declines within eight useful days.

Can.160 §1. The person who possesses the right of presentation can present one or even several

persons, either at the same time or successively.

§2. No one can present oneself; a college or group of persons, however, can present one of

its own members.

Can.161 §1. Unless the law establishes otherwise, a person who has presented one found

unsuitable can present another candidate within a month, but once more only.

§2. If the person presented renounces or dies before the installation, the one who has the

right of presentation can exercise this right again within a month from the notice of the

renunciation or death.

Can.162 A person who has not made presentation within the useful time according to the norm

of can. 158, §1 and can. 161 as well as one who has twice presented an unsuitable person loses

the right of presentation for that case. The authority to whom it belongs to install freely provides

for the vacant office, with the assent, however, of the proper ordinary of the person appointed.

Can.163 The authority competent to install the person presented according to the norm of law

is to install the one legitimately presented whom the authority has found suitable and who has

accepted. If several persons legitimately presented have been found suitable, the authority must

install one of them.