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

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23 and other things mostly of a financial technical nature. At the divine service so-called cathedral and collegiate chapter. This top stands a cathedral capitular. which usually several financial councils chapters consist of the dignitaries (Domprobst, Domdekan, to support. in some places also Archidiakon and Kustos), as well as the d) General Spiritual Council. Canonists or Domkapitularen or. In various dioceses, the dignitaries have the right to celebrate- In a part of the German dioceses there exists within pontifical acts with episcopal cap, but without the ordinariate a general spiritual council to which the all-bishop's staff make. In some dioceses common questions of the ecclesiastical administration of property, the honorary lords are also mentioned, but they are not under the authority of the cathedral and building matters. church have its seat. The third class within the cathedral- The direction of the general spiritual council has a di. hzw. Siftschapter form the cathedral or abbey vicars, the rector. The members of the Cathedral Chapter, as the episcopal Curia, have the chancellery or bishop's office the speakers in the Ordinariatsverwaltung. Ordinariatskanzlei. It introduces the entry and exit list On it is the processing of the individual subject areas of all Sdhriftstücke and concerned in the dioceses without (press, youth work, association, Caritas and film special financial chamber also the accounting, written questions etc.) distributed. In addition, there are two archives, the diocesan and the episcopal secret archives, at the seat of the bishop's curia. 4. Diocesan Council. The diocean archive is intended to include and keep in documents all documents and in the dioceses, e.g. Gdańsk and Schneidemühl, which do not concern the dioes to those funds for the dotation of cathedral chapters. It must be closed. Only the executive committee of the Episcopal Chancellery, which is sufficient, will be appointed four to six priests of the episcopate chancellor. Access to the diocesan archive is only permitted with or their surroundings as diocese councils with the participation in permission of the bishop or the general vicar and the cancer of the bishops' administration. In individual other lers. Documents may be taken only against the confirmation of the bi-diocese also diocesan councils for certain tasks (questions of the young priest, seminaries, etc.) schofs or of the general vicar. In the secret archive, particularly important secret documents are to be kept. (a) Archpriest or dean. 3. The cathedral and collegiate chapters. Ten to thirty parishes are each grouped together to form a deca- at the episcopal cathedral churches and at the individual colnat or architpresbyterate. at whose legiat churches exist to increase the celebrations of the top of the archpriests or deans. 41 00