Canon 1052

1. The reduction of obligations of celebrating the Divine Liturgy is reserved to the Apostolic See. 2. If it is expressly

provided for in the articles of the foundation, the hierarch may

reduce obligations of celebrating the Divine Liturgy because of

diminished income. 3. The eparchial bishop has the power, when

income diminishes, of reducing the number of celebrations of the

Divine Liturgy in conformity with the level of the offerings

legitimately established in the eparchy, for as long as this

diminishment of income continues, provided that there is no one

who has an obligation to increase the offering and can successfully be made to do so. 4. The eparchial bishop also has the

power of reducing the obligation of celebrating the Divine Liturgy which bind ecclesiastical institutes if the income proves insufficient to pursue the goals that were able to be pursued at

the time the obligations were accepted. 5. The powers mentioned in 3 and 4 are also enjoyed by the superiors general of

clerical religious institutes or societies of common life in the

manner of religious of pontifical or patriarchal right. 6. The

eparchial bishop can delegate the powers mentioned in 3 and 4

only to a coadjutor bishop, auxiliary bishop, protosyncellus or

syncellus, to the exclusion of any subdelegation.