Sacramental law

Catholic appellate court

one of the three tribunals of the Roman Curia

paper register of births, marriages and deaths in various offices

priest duty

act by which a bishop or other legitimate superior grants to an ecclesiastic the actual exercise of his ministry

form of sacrilege in some Christian denominations

declaration of nullity of a marriage by an ecclesiastical tribunal

discipline within the Catholic Church

A consecrator is a bishop who ordains someone to the episcopacy. A co-consecrator is someone who assists the consecrator bishop in the act of ordaining a new bishop.

type of Christian sacrament

A celebret, in Catholic canon law, is a letter from a bishop or religious superior authorizing a priest to say Mass in a diocese other than his own. The name of the document is taken from the Latin , meaning “may he celebrate”, as it is traditionally the first word of the text therein. ==History== The Council of Trent (Sess. XXIII, chap. xvi on Reform) lays down the rule that "no cleric who is a stranger shall without letter commendatory from his own ordinary be admitted by any bishop to celebrate the divine mysteries". Ordinarily, permission is not to be given to a priest from another dioces

Distinction in Catholic canon law

apostolic Constitution

concepts in the Catholic Church

priest member of the chapter of a cathedral authorized by the bishop to confess the most serious sins that common priests do not have authorization to confess

letter authorizing Catholic ordination