STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 642, sig. 109-4/390

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21. The synod's subjects of negotiation become cathedral chapters. In many cases, the bishop can prepare the most often already before the synod in committees. Rights of the general vicar are restricted or extended (e.g. the decisions of the Synod are subject to the bishop alone. Resumption of false teachers, permission of secret writers and then commit as episcopal laws. Partial marriages, fixing of the fees that foreign priests must pay for the entitled to the diocesan synod are the general celebration of the Mass, declaration of authenticity of vikar, the cathedral chapter, the rain of the seminary, relics, establishment of church associations, awarding of all deans of the diocese, each representative for example of parishes etc.). Within his office, the College Chapter, the Pastors of the Synodal City, and the Vicar General of several cathedrals or vicars, assigns a pastor from each dean's office and the subject areas designated as speakers in the diocese to be dealt with. The Abbots and Superiors of Orders. The Vicar-General alone is entitled to draw. On the diocesan synods, more topical matters are usually discussed by the Vicar General alone, for which the bishop does not want to take responsibility alone, he does not take this up, but for which he wants to secure the back-up plenum of the speakers in the so-called ordinariate meeting of his clergy. for consultation. b) The Office. 2. The Episcopal Curia (Bishopric Ordinary). The Office is the episcopate's court in all criminal proceedings- For the execution of the episocopal central administration and insulting, consecration and matrimonial proceedings. In the dioceses, the bishop's administrative apparatus is the Bishop's Angsburg, Bamberg, Berlin, Wrocław, Munich-Freising, Pas-Kurie or the Episcopal Ordinary. This sow, Regensburg and Schneidemühl leads the official office of the episcopate's administration apparatus is again in several Ab- Names of the Bishops' Consistory. In the Archdioceses, the Office is at the same time the first instance for its own archdiocese and the second instance for the remaining dioceses. (a)The General Vicariate of the Church Province (Suffragan dioceses). If the Office's actual government and administrative authority is acting as the second department, it is called the episcopal central administration of the General Vicariat. It Metropolitan Court. The official is in all these disputes- is headed by a Vicar General, which is responsible for a number of matters of the official representatives of the Bishop. Vicar general and councils (referents) as well as its own secretariat. Officially, therefore, the cornerstones of the episcopal curia The Vicar General is practically the general representative and as deputy of the bishop in their competent assistant of the Bishop in the exercise of the Episcopate juris- diction the senior officials of the Ordinariate. During the diction. He must be at least 30 years old, but the priest-general vicar is, as it were, episcopal co-regent, is consecrated and should be a doctor of theology and of the official only highest official within his substantive law. The official may act as a single judge or pre-priest of the diocese, including members of the sacrificial court of the College.