Canon 320

1. When the exarchy is vacant or impeded, the government transfers to the protosyncellus or, when there is none, to the pastor

senior by presbyteral ordination. 2. He who comes into the interim governance of the exarchy must as soon as possible inform

the authority whose right it is to appoint the exarch so that he

can fill the vacancy. Meanwhile he can use all the powers and

faculties, whether ordinary or delegated which the exarch had,

unless they were committed to the exarch for his personal qualifications.