Canon 833. The following are personally bound to make a profession of faith, according to the formula approved by the Apostolic See:

1° in the presence of the president or his delegate: all who, with a deliberative or a consultative vote, take part in an Ecumenical Council, a particular council, the synod of Bishops, or a diocesan synod; in the presence of the council or synod: the president himself ;

2° in accordance with the statutes of the sacred College: those promoted to the dignity of Cardinal;

3° in the presence of a delegate of the Apostolic See: all who are promoted to the episcopate, and all those who are equivalent to a diocesan Bishop;

4° in the presence of the college of consultors: the diocesan Administrator;

5° in the presence of the diocesan Bishop or his delegate: Vicars general, episcopal
Vicars and judicial Vicars;

6° in the presence of the local Ordinary or his delegate: parish priests; the rector, professors of theology and philosophy in seminaries, at the beginning of their term of office; and those who are to be promoted to the order of diaconate;

7° in the presence of the Chancellor or, in the absence of the Chancellor, the local
Ordinary, or the delegates of either: the rector of an ecclesiastical or catholic university, at the beginning of the term of office- in the presence of the rector if he is a priest, or of the local Ordinary or the delegates of either: those who in any universities teach subjects which deal with faith or morals, at the beginning of their term of office;

8° in accordance with the constitutions: Superiors in religious institutes and clerical societies of apostolic life.

Obligatione emittendi personaliter professionem fidei, secundum formulam a Sede Apostolica probatam, tenentur:

1° coram praeside eiusve delegato, omnes qui Concilio Oecumenico vel particulari, synodo Episcoporum atque synodo dioecesanae intersunt cum voto sive deliberativo sive consultivo; praeses autem coram Concilio aut synodo;

2° promoti ad cardinalitiam dignitatem iuxta sacri Collegii statuta;

3° coram delegato ab Apostolica Sede, omnes promoti ad episcopatum, itemque qui Episcopo dioecesano aequiparantur;

4° coram collegio consultorum, Administrator dioecesanus;

5° coram Episcopo dioecesano eiusve delegato, Vicarii generales et Vicarii episcopales necnon Vicarii iudiciales;

6° coram loci Ordinario eiusve delegato, parochi, rector, magistri theologiae et philosophiae in seminariis, initio suscepti muneris; promovendi ad ordinem diaconatus;

7° coram Magno Cancellario eoque deficiente coram Ordinario loci eorumve delegatis, rector universitatis ecclesiasticae vel catholicae, initio suscepti muneris; coram rectore, si sit sacerdos, vel coram loci Ordinario eorumve delegatis, docentes qui disciplinas ad fidem vel mores pertinentes in quibusvis universitatibus tradunt, initio suscepti muneris;

8° Superiores in institutis religiosis et societatibus vitae apostolicae clericalibus, ad normam constitutionum.



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