Admissio

Admissio ( Latin for “admission”, “access” or “audience”; plural admissiones ) was the term used in the Roman Empire for the ceremonial admission to an audience with higher officials or with the emperor .

In the morning there was a salutatio (Latin for "greeting", here the ritual morning greeting between patron and subordinate) at the emperor's court , to which only people with an admissio were allowed. These were divided into three or more classes, of which the amici primae admissionis (“friends with the first permission”) were the first to be admitted and greeted with a kiss. The custom dates back to the republican times , according to Seneca it was first common in the houses of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus and Marcus Livius Drusus . During the imperial era, it was also used by the higher dignitaries of the empire, such as the provincial governors. The audience order of a provincial governor has been preserved from the time of Emperor Julian (361–363). In late antiquity there was a separate authority at the emperor's court ( officium admissionum ) for the allocation of admissiones . The officials employed there, the admissionales , were under the orders of the magister officiorum . They organized the audiences and were able to advance to proximus and then magister admissionum within their authority . After leaving this office, they were accepted into the Senate .

The term Admissio also existed in Roman law . In criminal law it is the acceptance, in procedural law the admission or granting of an injustice.

Catholic Church

In the Roman Catholic Church , Admissio describes the solemn reception and acceptance of an applicant as a candidate for the diaconate and the presbyterate . In Germany this admissio usually takes place after the ministeria has been transferred (service offices: editing and acolyte ) and in close proximity to the ordination of deacons; internationally this time varies. Historically, the admissio replaced the tonsure .

literature

• Herbert Hausmaninger : Admissio. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 68 f.
• Johannes Schmidt : Admissio . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 381 f.

Remarks

1. ↑ Seneca, de beneficiis 6,33f.
2. ^ The ordo salutationis of Ulpius Mariscianus from Thamugadi : Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII Supplemente 17896.
3. ↑ On the admissionales cf. Otto Seeck , Admissionales , in: RE I, 1 (1893), Sp. 382.
4. ^ Paul VI .: Motu proprio "Ad pascendum"; August 15, 1972; AAS LXIV [1972] 529-534.