Canon 128

The administrator of the patriarchal Church is: (1) immediately

to inform the Roman Pontiff and all the bishops of the patriarchal Church of the vacancy of the patriarchal see; (2) to carry

out accurately and to see that others carry out the special norms

prescribed by common or particular law, or by an instruction of

the Roman Pontiff, if one is given, for the various circumstances

which occur during the vacancy of the patriarchal see; (3) to

convoke the bishops to the synod of bishops of the patriarchal

Church for the election of a patriarch and to prepare all other

things necessary for the synod.