What Process Must a Priest Undergo in the US if He Wishes to be Bi-ritual?

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What process must a diocesan priest undergo in the United States to be bi-ritual?
 
He must be trained the rite that he wishes to celebrate, with the permission of his own bishop. Again with the permission of his own bishop, he may then request faculties from the bishop of the diocese or eparchy in which he wishes to celebrate the new rite. If he is granted faculties, he becomes bi-ritual.
 
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He must be trained the rite that he wishes to celebrate, with the permission of his own bishop. Again with the permission of his own bishop, he may then request faculties from the bishop of the diocese or eparchy in which he wishes to celebrate the new rite. If he is granted faculties, he becomes bi-ritual.
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Didn’t Benedict XVI’s “Summorum Pontificum” do away this the requirement that a priest must have the permission of their bishop?
 
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Didn’t Benedict XVI’s “Summorum Pontificum” do away this the requirement that a priest must have the permission of their bishop?
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Summorum Pontificum only deals with priests wishing to celebrate the Mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite - both the ordinary form and the extraordinary form are of the same rite. A bi-ritual priest is one who is authorized to celebrate Mass or Divine Liturgy in a different rite altogether. For example, my Byzantine Rite priest has faculties from his own bishop to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite in the Eparchy of Phoenix. He also has faculties to celebrate Mass in the local Latin Rite diocese, with faculties from the bishop of that diocese.
 
salvemater said:
Didn’t Benedict XVI’s “Summorum Pontificum” do away this the requirement that a priest must have the permission of their bishop?
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I believe that had to do with celebrating the Extraordinary Form of the Mass…being bi-ritual refers to being able to celebrate two different Rites such as the Byzantine and Roman or Roman and Coptic…etc
 
babochka said:
He must be trained the rite that he wishes to celebrate, with the permission of his own bishop. Again with the permission of his own bishop, he may then request faculties from the bishop of the diocese or eparchy in which he wishes to celebrate the new rite. If he is granted faculties, he becomes bi-ritual.
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Yes, but let me add a note or two.

(1) I think it would be better said that the applicant priest’s ordinary must approve the request for bi-ritual faculties. IOW, in the case of a religious priest, the petition for bi-ritual faculties must be approved by the applicant’s religious superior rather than the diocesan bishop.

(2) Such faculties may be requested for any usage, so there need not be a diocese or eparchy of the “receiving” Church involved. For example, the Russian GCC has no episcopal jurisdictions in the US, but bi-ritual faculties may be (and have been) granted for it. Even if there is an episcopal jurisdiction, such faculties are not granted by a diocesan/eparchial bishop. The petition is always sent to Rome which grants or denies it. The “receiving” bishop will, however, make a recommendation. Also, once granted by Rome, bi-ritual faculties are usually given for a defined term. That term may be extended or renewed by request as Rome sees fit.
 
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