Preconization

Preconization ( Latin , cf. praeco , derivation of preconization : "praise, proclaim someone's fame aloud" and church lat . : praeconizatio zu praeconizare ) is the solemn declaration of the Pope in the College of Cardinals that a nominee for bishop is worthy of this office and as such will be proclaimed.

Use in canon law

The conferral of office is a constitutive element of the canonical concept of office . The conferment of the episcopate takes place by the Pope and, if it takes place in a solemn manner in the consistory (cf. CIC can. 353), is called preconization . Today, however, it is usually carried out by bull or breve and later announced in the consistory. It is only completed when the person called has received episcopal ordination and assumed the office.

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Individual evidence

1. ^ After Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888, vol. 13 p. 312
2. ^ Karl Josef Rivinius, in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. Volume III, columns 1379-1383, Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 1992
3. ↑ Raphael Gross: Carl Schmitt and the Jews. A German legal theory. Suhrkamp Taschenbuchwissenschaft, June 27, 2005, p. 90. “Preconization is the expression for the solemn appointment of bishops by the Pope before the cardinals”.
4. ↑ Aymans - Mörsdorf: Canon Law - textbook based on the Codex Iuris Canonici. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , 1997, vol. II, p. 337 (c. Award of office (cc. 379, 380)).