Canon 537

1. Major superiors can grant, in accordance with the statutes,

dimissorial letters for sacred orders to perpetually professed

members. 2. The bishop to whom the superior must address the

dimissorial letters is the eparchial bishop of the place in which

the candidate has a domicile; to another bishop, however, if the

eparchial bishop has given permission, is of a Church sui iuris

different from that of the candidate, is absent, or, finally, if

the eparchy is vacant and the one who governs it is not an ordained bishop. In each case it is necessary that all this be

certain to the ordaining bishop by an authentic document of the

eparchial curia.