Addenda from the Code

By the obligation of emitting a profession of faith, according to the formula approved by the Holy See, these are held (Code, c. 1406):

¹ On p. 376 we indicated only summarily those who must emit the profession of faith; here we explain the matter more fully from the Code.

1. Those who are present at an ecumenical or particular Council or diocesan Synod with either consultative or deliberative vote, before its president or his delegate; the president, moreover, before the same Council or synod;

2. Those promoted to the cardinalitial dignity, before the Dean of the Sacred College, the Cardinals first in the order of priests and deacons, and the Camerarius of the Holy Roman Church;

3. Those promoted to an episcopal see, even not residential, or to the rule of an Abbey or Prelature nullius, Apostolic Vicariate, or Apostolic Prefecture, before a delegate by the Apostolic See;

4. A capitular vicar before the cathedral chapter;

5. Those promoted to a dignity or canonry, before the local Ordinary or his delegate and before the Chapter;

6. Those assumed to the office of diocesan consultors, before the local Ordinary or his delegate and before the other consultors;

7. The vicar general, pastors, and those for whom provision has been made concerning any benefices whatever, even manual ones, having the care of souls; the rector, professors of sacred theology, canon law, and philosophy in Seminaries, at the beginning of any scholastic year, or at least at the beginning of the office undertaken; all those to be promoted to the order of subdiaconate; censors of books... priests destined for receiving confessions and sacred preachers, before they are endowed with faculty of exercising these offices, before the local Ordinary or his delegate;

8. The Rector of a University or Faculty, before the Ordinary or his delegate; all professors in a University or Faculty canonically erected, at the beginning of each scholastic year, or at least at the beginning of the office undertaken; likewise those who, after trial has been made, are endowed with academic degrees, before the Rector of the University or faculty, or his delegate;

9. Superiors in clerical religions, before the Chapter or Superior who named them.

N. B. - Those who, after a former one has been laid aside, obtain another office or dignity, even of the same species, must again emit the profession of faith (c. 1406, § 2).