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Larry1700
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If you call a priest, and they tell you that issues such as yours are typically handled via the Chancellery, what the heck do they mean?
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Pug
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The Chancellery is the Chancery. Which Chancery, though? I’d guess he meant at the diocese. The bishop is in charge of a diocese. It is a large geographical region that he is over, and it includes many parishes. The Chancery is the administrative offices that help the bishop to run the whole shebang. So you are being told it would be handled at the level of the diocese, not the parish level.
(note, the word can also refer to the Apostolic Chancery, which seems highly unlikely in this context).
I could be wrong, of course.
(note, the word can also refer to the Apostolic Chancery, which seems highly unlikely in this context).
I could be wrong, of course.
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Cavaille-Coll
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Yes, the chancery is the central administrative office building for a diocese, sometimes called a pastoral center. Inside are the offices of the (arch)bishop, chancellor, marriage tribunal offices, vocation director, and so forth.
The term “chancellory” may have been used in some places to denote the Chancellor’s office, but today the term only applies to government buildings in Germany and Austria, where the prime minister is referred to as the Chancellor (Kanzler).
The term “chancellory” may have been used in some places to denote the Chancellor’s office, but today the term only applies to government buildings in Germany and Austria, where the prime minister is referred to as the Chancellor (Kanzler).
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cameron_lansing
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The more proper term is curia, though people know what is meant by reference to chancellery or chancery.
Technically, the latter is the office of the chancellor. That role is found in canon 482.
§1. In every curia a chancellor is to be appointed whose principal task is, unless particular law determines otherwise, to see to it that the acts of the curia are gathered, arranged and safeguarded in the archive of the curia. §2. If it seems necessary the chancellor can be given an assistant, whose title is vice-chancellor. §3. The chancellor and vice-chancellor are automatically notaries and secretaries of the curia.
In practice, many diocesan bishops delegate additional authority to them today.
The diocesan curia consists of those institutions and persons which assist the bishop in the governance of the whole diocese, especially in guiding pastoral activity, in caring for the administration of the diocese, and in exercising judicial power (c. 469).
Technically, the latter is the office of the chancellor. That role is found in canon 482.
§1. In every curia a chancellor is to be appointed whose principal task is, unless particular law determines otherwise, to see to it that the acts of the curia are gathered, arranged and safeguarded in the archive of the curia. §2. If it seems necessary the chancellor can be given an assistant, whose title is vice-chancellor. §3. The chancellor and vice-chancellor are automatically notaries and secretaries of the curia.
In practice, many diocesan bishops delegate additional authority to them today.
The diocesan curia consists of those institutions and persons which assist the bishop in the governance of the whole diocese, especially in guiding pastoral activity, in caring for the administration of the diocese, and in exercising judicial power (c. 469).
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