Procurator (Catholic canon law)
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Procurator at Rome
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Thus a Prelate (not Ordinary elsewhere) is appointed as Procurator for the Patriarch of Antioch of the
Internal regular procurators
Within the above regular institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life, the person charged with matters such as the purchase of provisions, furniture, books and other supplies may be called a procurator.[1] This officer may be called a provincial procurator or a procurator general, if looking after the needs of a province or of the institute as a whole. In other institutes, the terms used may be bursar or econome.
Canonical litigation
A party to litigation may generally appoint a procurator instead of responding personally.[3]
The name "fiscal procurator" or "fiscal promoter" was previously used in canon law[4] for the official known since the publication of the 1917 Code of Canon Law as the promoter of justice, whose function is to safeguard the public welfare in cases brought before ecclesiastical tribunals.[5]
In canonization cases, the corresponding official was called the promoter of the faith or, in popular parlance, the devil's advocate.
See also
References
- ^ a b c John Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary
- ^ John Coulson, The Saints: A Concise Bibliographical Dictionary
- ^ Code of Canon Law, Book VII, Part I, Title IV, Chapter II: "Procurators for Litigation and Advocates"
- ^ Joseph Laurentius, Fiscal Procurator in Catholic Encyclopedia [1909]
- ISBN 9788171097258, pp. 112-114