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He can, however, delegate a vicar general or episcopal vicar to fulfill this responsibility for individual sessions of the synod.Ĭan. The diocesan bishop presides over a diocesan synod. The diocesan bishop alone convokes a diocesan synod, but not one who temporarily presides over a diocese. If a bishop has the care of several dioceses or has the care of one as the proper bishop but of another as administrator, he can convoke one diocesan synod for all the dioceses entrusted to him.Ĭan. A diocesan synod is to be celebrated in individual particular churches when circumstances suggest it in the judgment of the diocesan bishop after he has heard the presbyteral council. 460 A diocesan synod is a group of selected priests and other members of the Christian faithful of a particular church who offer assistance to the diocesan bishop for the good of the whole diocesan community according to the norm of the following canons.Ĭan. THE INTERNAL ORDERING OF PARTICULAR CHURCHES (Cann. THE HIERARCHICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH THE PRESBYTERAL COUNCIL AND THE COLLEGE OF CONSULTORS THE FINANCE COUNCIL AND THE FINANCE OFFICER THE CHANCELLOR, OTHER NOTARIES, AND THE ARCHIVES