Article — 1917 Code of Canon Law

Article III: Of the Offices of the Roman Curia

Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.

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Can. 260.

§ 1. To the Apostolic Chancery, over which presides the Cardinal Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, this is the proper function: to issue apostolic letters or bulls for the provision of consistorial benefices and offices, for the establishment of new provinces and dioceses and chapters, and for the carrying out of other greater business of the Church.

§ 2. These letters or bulls are not to be issued except by mandate of the Consistorial Congregation concerning business which looks to its competence, or by mandate of the Supreme Pontiff concerning other business, with the terms of the mandate itself observed in individual cases.

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Can. 261.

To the Apostolic Datary, which is moderated by the Cardinal Datary of the Holy Roman Church, it has been committed to take cognizance of the suitability of those to be promoted to non-consistorial benefices reserved to the Apostolic See; to prepare and issue apostolic letters for their conferral; to exempt, in conferring a benefice, from required conditions whenever its conferral does not belong to the Ordinary; and to care for the pensions and burdens which the Supreme Pontiff will have imposed in conferring the aforesaid benefices.

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Can. 262.

To the Apostolic Camera, over which presides the Cardinal Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, belongs the care and administration of the temporal goods and rights of the Holy See, especially at the time when it is vacant; and then the norms established in the constitution of Pius X Vacante Sede Apostolica, Dec. 25, 1904, are to be observed exactly.

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Can. 263.

The Office of the Secretariat of State, whose moderator is the Cardinal Secretary of State, consists of three parts in this order:

1° The first part, over which presides the Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, is occupied with business which must be submitted to the examination of that same Congregation according to the norm of can. 255, other matters being remitted to particular Congregations according to their different nature.

2° The second part, over which presides the Substitute, is engaged in ordinary business.

3° The Chancellor of Apostolic Briefs directs the third part, which is devoted to the dispatch of Briefs.

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