Chapter VI: Of the Notation and Testimonial of Completed Ordination

§ 1. When ordination has been completed, the names of each of the ordained and of the ordaining minister, and the place and day of ordination, are to be noted in a special book diligently kept in the Curia of the place of ordination, and all documents of the individual ordinations are to be preserved accurately.

§ 2. To each ordained person there is to be given an authentic testimonial of the ordination received; and if they have been promoted by an outside Bishop with dimissorial letters, they are to exhibit it to their own Ordinary for the notation of the ordination in a special book to be preserved in the archive.

Moreover, the local Ordinary, if there is question of those ordained from the secular clergy, or the major Superior, if of religious ordained with his dimissorial letters, is to transmit notice of the celebrated ordination of each subdeacon to the pastor of baptism, who is to note this in his book of the baptized according to the norm of can. 470, Sec. 2.