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PROVISORS
solutely personal right of the bishop, neither the vicar- genera] -"''■ / Una) <an perform itwithout Bpecial pow- ers, nor the chapter, oor the capitular vicar appointed by them i The institutio canonica, or coU
lativa, <>r verbalis, was formerly a regular official righl of the archdeacon (c. 6, x. "De Instit." iii. 7 i, and i- still a ri_^lit comprised in the general powers of the vicar-general. This right of institution i < > offices con- nected with no charge of souls fan « xceptionally belong even to other ecclesiastical persons or corporations, cither in consequence of special favor or of prescription (c 18, \. - De Praeser." ii. 26; c 2, ^ 2,"De Privil."v, 33). By this canonical institution the nominee obtains the full right to his office and to the attributes of juris- diction ami honorary distinctions connected H ith it. but no right to take charge of souls: lor this he needs a special authorization, lor which he must apply with- in a period of two months from the 'lay when the decree "l presentation or collation has been received (Pii V -In Conferendis," d. 8 .Man. 1867); and this is called the institutio, in a narrower sense, or insti- tutio auctorisabilis, i. e. the special collation of the charge of souls. The collation of the cura atdmarum is, again, so exclusively a righl of the bishop that nei- ther the archdeacon nor formerly the vicar-general, un- less specially empowered, could confer it (c. 1. s,"De Off. Archidiac." i, 23), nor. in general, any third person even possessed of the full righl of provision. Now the institutio tinr/uri.iiilii/i.< goes regularly together with the institutio collativa, and is given at the episcopal resi- dence after previous examination ( Cone. Trid. sess. vii; c. 13, "De i.'ef."i and approbation, by means of sym- bolical performances, by dressing the candidate in the chasuble and barret (hence the name investitun ). receiv- ing his profession of faith and oath of obeisance, and de- livering the beneticiary a deed thereof, called "letter of investiture." '1'his institutio auctorisabilis can be made by the bishop himself or his vicar-general, who needs no Longer a Bpecial mandate for it (Benedict] XIV'De Syn. Dicec." lib. ii. c. .s). and, sede vacante, the chapter, or the capitular vicar appointed by them (Sext. c. 1, •■ De In-lit." iii. i',i.
i_'.i flie introduction into the cilice and prebend, or putting into possession (institutio corporalis), is called (a) for the bishop inthronization, and consists in this. that the consecrated bishop, in his badges, takes solemn possession of hi- cathedral and assigned residence. It is combined, ii the bishop be consecrated in hi- own church, into one act with the consecration; but if the consecration take place extra diatcesin — in the met- ropolitan church, or cathedral, of the consecrator dele- gated by the pope— then, according to the traditional custom, the bishop in pastoral habit, with crosier and mitre, is received al bis arrival in thebanlieui of his seal by tie- chapter .and the clergy of the city and surround- ing country . and escorted t" some church situated in the neighborhood, where, after a short prayer, he is clothed in the pontifical robes ami badges, hence to be led in solemn procession, all bells ringing, into his cathedral. Here he is greeted with the hymn Eca SOCerdoS mui/- nus, and while the clergy and the people sing the /'. Jti urn. he takes his seat, gives the episcopal benediction, and is then escorted to his residence, the cross being carried before him. (6) The solemn admission of a can- on i. fa cathedral or collegiate chapter is called installa-
I I l I liciary. in the bouse of the chapter, i~
clothed in the choir garments, and the capitular cross is
I to bi> neck, whereupon he recites the Credo
and swears the capitular oath, lb- is then led to his
seat in tii,' chapter (sedes in capUulo'), escorted to the
Church, ami here, also, shown bis place in the choir
{slaltum in choro, hence installalio). («) With cn- i i other beneficiaries, the institutio corporalis
(now also called instaUatio) is performed at the place of the prebend, the introduction into the office (ttn- missio in spiritualia beneficii) by a legate of the bishop, and the putting in possession of the prebend (j
iii temporal in) by a commissary of the civil govern- ment.
In Austria, every ecclesiastic, upon getting into office, all. r reci iving spiritual investiture at the hands of the bishop, has. before his installation, to sign a written dec- laration to the effect that hedoes not belong, nor will ever belong, to any seer, t society. The spiritual installation i- performed, in the name of the ordinariate. by the vicar of the district or dean the first holyday all. r the arrival
ol the ecclesiastic at the place of his benefice; the world- ly installation, in the name of the government, by a hi. her functionary commissioned thereto; in patronal prebends by the patron, according to the prevailing cus- tom. In Prussia, the prebendary is generally pul into possession by the archpriest (dean), in common with the patron or with the Landrath, if the curacy be one of those to which the government has the right of nomination. J he deed of confirmation i- read in t he presence ol the Community, the curate is introduced, ami put in | 0S» — sion of his residence with appurtenances. In Bavaria the oath is exacted, after which the dean proceeds i" the spiritual performance in the church, where he intro- duces the new curate to hi- community. From the church he is led again to his residence, where in i- in- troduced to the community by the royal commissary. Then the people are dismissed, and the same commis- sary, in the presence of the episcopal plenipotentiary and the civil functionaries and church trustei s, delivers the keys of the house to the new curate. In Baden, the curate is put in possession, in the name of the grand- duke, by the grand-ducal dean and the functionaries of the district, but only mediately, by a written order of these officers; but a solemn institutio corporalis takes place in the church in the presence of the archiepisco- pal dean. Similar dispositions prevail in Wurtemberg, in the kingdom of Saxony, the grand-duchy ol Hesse, and in Nassau.— Wetzer u. Welte. Kirchen-Lex. s. v.