Chapter V: Of the Time and Place of Sacred Ordination

§ 1. Episcopal consecration must be conferred within the solemnities of Masses, on a Sunday or on the natal day of the Apostles.

§ 2. Ordinations in sacred orders are to be celebrated within the solemnities of Masses on the Saturdays of the Four Times, on the Saturday before Passion Sunday, and on Holy Saturday.

§ 3. Nevertheless, with a grave cause intervening, the Bishop can have them also on any Sunday or feast day of precept.

§ 4. First tonsure can be conferred on any day and hour; minor orders on individual Sundays and double feasts, yet in the morning.

§ 5. A custom contrary to the times of ordination prescribed in the preceding paragraphs is reprobated; these are also to be observed when a Bishop of the Latin rite, by apostolic indult, ordains a cleric of the Eastern rite, or the reverse.

As often as ordination is to be repeated or some rite supplied, whether absolutely or under condition, this can be done even outside the times and secretly.

A Bishop outside his own territory, without the permission of the local Ordinary, cannot confer orders in the conferral of which pontificals are exercised, with the prescription of can. 239, Sec. 1, n. 15 preserved.

§ 1. General ordinations are to be celebrated publicly in the cathedral church, the canons of the church having been called and being present; but if in another place of the diocese, the clergy of the place being present, the more worthy church, insofar as it can be done, is to be approached.

§ 2. But the Bishop is not prohibited, when a just cause persuades, from having particular ordinations also in other churches and likewise in the oratory of the episcopal house, or of the Seminary, or of a religious house.

§ 3. First tonsure and minor orders can be conferred even in private oratories.