Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1983 Code of Canon law states (canon 882): "The ordinary minister of confirmation is a bishop; a presbyter provided with this faculty in virtue of universal law or the special grant of the competent authority also confers this sacrament validly." [6]
In the Roman Catholic Church, the sacrament is customarily conferred only on persons old enough to understand it, and the ordinary minister of confirmation is a bishop. "If necessity so requires", the diocesan bishop may grant specified priests the faculty to administer the sacrament, although normally he is to administer it himself or ensure ...
While bishops, priests and deacons are ordinary ministers of holy communion, [1] only someone who has been validly ordained as a priest is a minister of the Eucharist. [2] If a priest is, for some reason, debarred [ 3 ] and yet celebrates the Eucharist, he does so illicitly (i.e. against canon law ), but the Eucharist is still valid .
The confirmation has usually been performed by the archbishop's vicar-general and, in the southern province, at the church of St Mary-le-Bow, London (as the permanent home of the Arches Court); but since 1901 it has also been performed variously at: Church House, Westminster; at Lambeth Palace; at the Archbishop's Faculty Office (1 The ...
Confirmation [ edit ] In the Latin Church , a bishop is the ordinary minister of confirmation and he may licitly administer it to his own subjects everywhere and, in his own territory, even to Catholics who are not his subjects, unless their ordinary has expressly forbidden it. [ 12 ]
The bishop is the ordinary minister of the sacrament of confirmation in the Latin Church, and in the Old Catholic communion only a bishop may administer this sacrament. In the Lutheran and Anglican churches, the bishop normatively administers the rite of confirmation, although in those denominations that do not have an episcopal polity ...
Ever since Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—whose confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee happens on January 29—burst onto the political scene, ...
The sacrament of Confirmation is normally administered by a bishop in the Latin Church, but a bishop may delegate the administration to a priest. In the case of receiving an adult into full communion with the Catholic Church the presiding priest will administer Confirmation. [24]