Canon 80

The patriarch is: (1) to exercise the rights and to fulfill the

obligations of a metropolitan in all places where provinces are

not erected; (2) to supply for the negligence of metropolitans

according to the norm of law; (3) to exercise the rights and to

fulfill the obligations of a metropolitan in the entire province

during the vacancy of a metropolitan see; (4) to warn a metropolitan who did not appoint a finance officer according to can.

262, 1; if the warning is made in vain, he himself is to appoint

a finance officer.