Title — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Title IV: Of Ecclesiastical Offices
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. An ecclesiastical office in the broad sense is any function which is legitimately exercised for a spiritual end; but in the strict sense it is a function stably constituted by either divine or ecclesiastical ordinance, to be conferred according to the norm of the sacred canons, carrying with it at least some participation in ecclesiastical power, whether of order or of jurisdiction.
§ 2. In law, ecclesiastical office is taken in the strict sense, unless something else appears from the context of the language.
§ 1. Officium ecclesiasticum lato sensu est quodlibet munus quod in spiritualem finem legitime exercetur; stricto autem sensu est munus ordinatione sive divina sive ecclesiastica stabiliter constitutum, ad normam sacrorum canonum conferendum, aliquam saltem secumferens participationem ecclesiasticae potestatis sive ordinis sive iurisdictionis.
§ 2. In iure officium ecclesiasticum accipitur stricto sensu, nisi aliud ex contextu sermonis appareat.
1983 Code correlation: can. 145
Concerning beneficial offices in particular, besides the canons which follow, the prescriptions of can. 1409 and following are also to be kept.
De beneficialibus officiis in specie, praeter canones qui sequuntur, custodiantur insuper praescripta can. 1409 seqq.
Within this title
Chapter I: Of the Provision of Ecclesiastical Officescann. 147–182
- Article I: Of Free Conferralcann. 152–159
- Article II: Of Electioncann. 160–178
- Article III: Of Postulationcann. 179–182
- Chapter II: Of the Loss of Ecclesiastical Officescann. 183–195