Parish exam

The parish exam is in the Roman Catholic Church , the prerequisite for the acquisition of the office, the suitability of a priest is. In Germany it is usually part of the "second service examination" for parish trainees. The diocesan bishop determines the mode of the examination for his diocese.

Canon law requires in the Codex Iuris Canonici can. 521 from an applicant in addition to the ordination , his orthodoxy, righteousness and pastoral zeal that "his suitability in a way determined by the diocesan bishop, including an examination, must be certain".

Since the Council of Trento there has been the office of the episcopal synod examiner, whose task was the examination of the parish exam in a diocese. This office is no longer included in the Codex Iuris Canonici , which was renewed in 1983 .

Individual evidence

^ Sabine Demel : Parish exam . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 8 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1999, Sp. 171 f .
^ Josef Kandler: Synodalexaminator . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 9 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, Sp. 1184 .

[1] Sabine Demel : Parish exam . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 8 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1999, Sp. 171 f .

[2] Josef Kandler: Synodalexaminator . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 9 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, Sp. 1184 .