Wait...My Diocese has no Bishop!

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My Diocese currently is waiting for it’s new Bishop. Who is going to hear my 1st confession and confirm me then? 🤔😐😮
 
A priest can hear your first confession. And faculties for administering Confirmation can be delegated to a priest as well.
 
Thank you! I was concerned!
Btw, nice sunflower! My state’s flower! 😊
 
my brother was confirmed by our parish priest because our bishop was getting his leg amputated.
 
Your priest doe that n RCIA. Even if there was a sitting Bishop, he can’t be in 100 parishes on the same night (Easter Vigil) 😀
 
Kathleen18 said:
Thank you!! That helped explain alot!
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And a suggestion. Enter the church, you will receive the sacraments from your pastor or whoever is presiding at the Mass. When your new bishop is installed, if it is feasible and if the opportunity arises, approach him and explain about your entrance into the church, and ask for his blessing. A blessing from a priest is a powerful thing most of us don’t realize, and ask for enough. If you are close enough to the see in your diocese, you might call and request an appointment. I don’;t think your new bishop would mind all that much.
Shalom
 
Usually the priest who receives you into full communion is the one who hears your first confession and confirms you.
 
Don’t think it’s a “must” - some areas have a confirmation for all adult converts after the Easter Vigil with bishop, but that’s not the typical case (at least, not around here). In fact, looking in the missal, I don’t see confirmation mentioned at all for Easter Vigil - it goes from baptism to renewal of baptismal promises (for the rest of us) to Eucharist.
 
My diocese did not have a bishop for two whole years not long ago. We had a neighboring bishop come and do some confirmations but I think the priest who was left in charge (basically acting as bishop) delegated someone to do the confirmations.
 
Cor_ad_Cor said:
Don’t think it’s a “must” - some areas have a confirmation for all adult converts after the Easter Vigil with bishop, but that’s not the typical case (at least, not around here). In fact, looking in the missal, I don’t see confirmation mentioned at all for Easter Vigil - it goes from baptism to renewal of baptismal promises (for the rest of us) to Eucharist.
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See the Easter Vigil Mass paragraphs numbered 48 to 53 in the actual Roman Missal (not a pew missal or hand missal, etc.)

The actual rituals are not printed there, only rubrics indicating what should be done.
 
It is to be applied very strictly. At least with regard to those who are at least 14.
 
Not sure you and Cor are talking about the same things. There are variances in the rules and what is allowed depending on whether the person in question is a catechumen (unbaptized), a candidate (baptized, non-Catholic), or a baptized but uncatechized Catholic.

The following link: http://www.archdiocesesantafe.org/Offices/SacramentalPolicies/RCIA FAQs.pdf is a document from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe that talks about this. Questions 1 to 6 seem to apply universally.

Note that the answer to question 7 (regarding baptized but uncatechized Cathoics) is specific to the Archdiocese and may vary from diocese to diocese depending on what the Bishop wants. For instance, I know that in the Archdiocese of Newark, the Archbishop has reserved the Confirmation of baptized but uncatechized Catholic CHILDREN to himself.

For questions 8 onward, if the reference authority is canon law or the RCIA rite, the answer probably applies universally, otherwise it may be diocese specific.
 
My bishop was too busy to be at my brother’s confirmation last year, so he delegated the responsibility to an abbot. It happens a lot.
 
Phemie said:
Usually the priest who receives you into full communion is the one who hears your first confession and confirms you.
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For a small parish like yours or mine, that’s typical. However…

If a parish has more than one priest, there’s really no telling which one might hear the first Confession. And if first confessions happen within a community penance service, that could even be a neighboring priest.

Confirmation should be done by the pastor (he can still delegate). But first confessions are going to depend a lot on the individual parish.
 
OP, when a diocese has no bishop, an apostolic administrator is appointed until there is a new bishop. He has almost all of the authority of a bishop.
 
A tumor… he’s completely fine now, but the jokes are pretty good… 😃
 
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