Title — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Title VI: Of Order
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
Order, from the institution of Christ, distinguishes clerics from lay persons in the Church for the governance of the faithful and the ministry of divine worship.
Ordo ex Christi institutione clericos a laicis in Ecclesia distinguit ad fidelium regimen et cultus divini ministerium.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1008
In the canons which follow, by the name of major or sacred orders are understood the presbyterate, diaconate, and subdiaconate; by the name of minor orders, however, the acolythate, exorcistate, lectorate, and ostiariate.
In canonibus qui sequuntur, nomine ordinum maiorum vel sacrorum intelliguntur presbyteratus, diaconatus, subdiaconatus; minorum vero acolythatus, exorcistatus, lectoratus, ostiariatus.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1009
In law the words: to ordain, order, ordination, sacred ordination, comprise, besides episcopal consecration, the orders enumerated in can. 949 and first tonsure itself, unless something else is drawn out from the nature of the thing or from the context of the words.
In iure verba: ordinare, ordo, ordinatio, sacra ordinatio, comprehendunt, praeter consecrationem episcopalem, ordines enumeratos in can. 949 et ipsam primam tonsuram, nisi aliud ex natura rei vel ex contextu verborum eruatur.
Within this title
- Chapter I: Of the Minister of Sacred Ordinationcann. 951–967
- Chapter III: Of Those Things Which Must Precede Sacred Ordinationcann. 992–1001
- Chapter IV: Of the Rites and Ceremonies of Sacred Ordinationcann. 1002–1005
- Chapter V: Of the Time and Place of Sacred Ordinationcann. 1006–1009
- Chapter VI: Of the Notation and Testimonial of Completed Ordinationcann. 1010–1011