Administrator (Catholic Church)
An administrator (from Latin administrare "to manage") is in Catholic canon law the head of a legally independent church area, a monastery or a specific institution.
Different shapes
- A diocesan administrator is the interim administrator of a diocese . This is usually an auxiliary bishop or another priest and officiates in the period of a sedis vacancy , i.e. after the resignation or death of the diocesan bishop, until a successor is inaugurated. During his term of office he cannot dispose of anything that has definitive character.
- The Apostolic Administrator is the head of an Apostolic Administration or of a (temporarily) jurisdiction directly subordinate to the Holy See .
- A parish administrator is a clergyman appointed temporarily by the bishop or diocesan administrator to lead a parish .
- An administrator or prior administrator is the interim acting head of a monastic branch of the prelate orders ( Benedictines , Cistercians , Premonstratensians and Augustinian canons ) with the rank of an abbey , if he has not received the abbot ordination , or a priory , if special circumstances suggest this. If he is a designated abbot , he is usually called an abbot administrator. The administrator is elected by the convent chapter for a certain period of time or can also be appointed by the Holy See as a so-called apostolic administrator .
- Administrator excurrendo - administrator who is not permanently on site at the point he manages.
Web links
- Administrator in the website of the German Bishops' Conference
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirchenlexikon (diocesan administrator) Retrieved on November 19, 2008
- ↑ Kirchenlexikon (parish administrator) Retrieved on November 19, 2008