English Translation

15 in the dispute over the right of the bishops to appoint the appointed bishop was allowed to be consecrated. In the 12th played. During the first Christian centuries the and 13th century the papacy was fought by this bishop by clergy and bishop people of the bishop's city. Confirmation right to a direct papal appointment elected. In these popular elections it often occurred. Quite rightly. Numerous princely and state governments excited tumult scenes. Later, however, the main influence went on in the following centuries the Er. in the direction of the election as well as in the confirmation and consecration right of the bishops. At present, the elected one claims to the archbishop. However, the clergy and those of the Pope in principle, in accordance with the norms of the new most respected laity, soon rejoined the ecclesial code of law with the right to appoint bishops freely by the archbishops and sought to appoint them by way of appointment. However, he has not yet succeeded in in influencing the corresponding proposals. The right to vote in the cathedral chapters is currently transferred to the bishops of the individual ecclesiastical provinces. Close- the non-Bavarian dioceses of the empire as well as the emperors and empresses in Salzburg who claimed decisively in and of themselves. A free papal right of appointment exists on the bishop's election. The episcopal estate connected in Bavaria, in the Ostmark except Salzburg, in Bohemia-Mäh- to the episdiocese, the epistles and in the general government, has been increasingly placed in the center of the episodic nomination. In order for the Vatican to appoint bishops The dioceses were given away as assets, given knowledge of suitable candidates, are bought, pledged, as a reward to military leaders and court. Lists of bishop candidates are drawn up. These bishops never received the world Catholicism: the Irish system. the American episcopal consecration, but lived as laymen and warriors. System and the Bavarian system. The Irish system as courtiers and lebenmen continues their past life. within the Great German Empire no validity. That they left their episcopal functions only by an American system applies since 1921 in the former Poland. poorly paid commissioners with the consecration After that the bishops give every two years one or more executed. These conditions led to the so-called Investi- name of suitable candidates for bishops to the archbishop's quarrel, in which the Pope endeavoured to know the lay influence of their ecclesiastical province. An alphabetically ordered list of names, which at all with the Worms concordat ended this investiture bishops of the ecclesiastical province for the purpose of further secret post-controversy with a compromise. The occupation of the dioceses researches about the suitability of the respective candi- The Pope was given the right to confirm that, after a secret vote, the Bishops of the Province of the Church, a king, remained the right, with the list of proposals, to challenge the appointed Bishop with a note of the number of votes. Only after this statement, which each candidate has achieved and with information on particular 24 25