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The Delegation of Another Priest to Assist at Marriage

When the pastor may delegate another priest to assist at a marriage, and on what conditions.

The works themselves ask 10 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Also asked about as…

delegating a priest to do a wedding · delegation for marriage · visiting priest at a wedding (ed.)

In the index as Form of Celebrating Marriage · Delegation · Delegation for matrimonial assistance · Subdelegation · Assistant Presbyter · Vicar · Assistance · Assisting parish priest · Bishop · Celebration of marriage · Cessation · Fear · Marriage · Matrimony · Pastor · Priest · Vagrants (persons without domicile)

In the manuals

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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Hieronymus Noldin, S.J.

Vol. III, Book Eight. On Matrimony., Question Eight. On the For…, Article Two. On the Delegated Priest., n. 649 — 649. Conditions Required for Delegation. If the competent parish priest does not assist at the matrimony, he can delegate another priest who may assist at the matrimony in his place. The conditions must be set forth whic… Read in context →

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R.

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. II, Ch. I, Art. I, § II, Point III. On the Delegation of Another Priest to Assist at Marriage, n. 737 — I. Notion of delegation. Delegation, or the granting of permission validly to assist at marriage, is the act by which an authorizable witness of marriage, that is, a witness who can furnish legal authority to the act at … Read in context →

Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 3 passages

154. Clandestinity, n. 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 5 passages

Vol. II, Treatise on Matrimony, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II, Point XI. On the Impediment of Clandestinity, n. 850 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P. — 2 passages

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. VIII, Art. II, § 1. The Valid and Licit Ordinary Celebration of Matrimony, nn. 760 & 761 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 20 passages

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Second Part: On the Celebr…, Question Three: On the Form or Rite of the Celebration of Matrimony, n. 848 (20 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J. — 8 passages

Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Chapter VII. On the Celebration of Marriage, nn. 909, Q. 8, 910, 911, Q. 2, 911, Q. 4, 911, Q. 7, 911, Q. 9, 911, Q. 15 & 915, Q. 6 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Daniele Concina, O.P.

Diss. I, Chapter VII — On clandestine matrimony, on the banns, and on the other things which ought to precede matrimony, n. X — X. QUESTION IV. Who besides the parish priest, or a priest designated by him, can assist at matrimony? ANSWER. There can assist: bishops in their own dioceses; archbishops in the dioceses of suffragans when they are actu… Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading The Ordinary Juridic Form — Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)