Chaplain
Kaplan (from Latin capellanus " clerics assigned to a (Franconian) court orchestra ", from this Middle High German Kaplan ) is an ecclesiastical office . In Middle Latin, a capellanus is an assistant priest. His apartment is sometimes referred to as a "chaplain".
According to cann. 564-572 CIC is a priest with an extra-territorial pastoral care area for a certain group of people, for example in hospitals, prisons or military facilities. In most German dioceses , however, it is customary to give these pastors the title of pastor ( e.g. hospital pastor , prison pastor or military pastor ), although no parish priest can be derived from this title.
In the German-speaking world, the term chaplain is also used for a parish vicar who is subordinate to a pastor in the first few years after his ordination and does not yet have sole responsibility for a parish ; he should gain the necessary experience during this time and therefore partially take on the pastor's duties . In the past, most parishes also had a chaplain, sometimes there were several in large parishes. Today they are rarely to be found due to the reduced number of young priests.
Depending on local custom, the chaplain is called vicar as an employee of a pastor in some dioceses - a designation that the Codex Iuris Canonici 1983 provides for this function: vicarius paroecialis . In the Bavarian language area and in the diocese of Trier, the term cooperator (employee of the pastor) is usually used. In the Archdiocese of Vienna , the curate in the parishes were considered to 1938 cooperators or Cooperatoren referred. With the resolution of the Austrian Bishops' Conference on September 28, 1938, the German name Kaplan was adopted. The terms adjunct and supernumerarius have become completely out of use . In congregations with several assistant priests, the youngest of the service was previously referred to as an "adjunct", another as a "vicar" and the longest serving as a chaplain.
The chaplains of the diocesan bishops are all secret secretaries, because they work on behalf of the bishop and in this sense are subject to secrecy. However, these are mostly not young priests who take on this office for training, as in parishes, but rather experienced clergy.
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- ↑ Edwin Habel , Friedrich Groebel (Ed.): Middle Latin Glossary (= UTB 1551). With an introduction by Heinz-Dieter Heimann . Reprint of the 2nd edition 1959 with a new introduction and unchanged vocabulary. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-1551-4 , p. 46.